School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)
- Location:
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 060
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“A certain farmer who lived near the town of Tipperary had a fine garden of potatoes.”
A certain farmer who lived near the town of Tipperary had a fine garden of potates.
He decided to see were they bad or good so he brought in a cat load of them but to his disgust he found that they were all bad and every load he brought in was worse than the first. The farmer was in a terrible state because he was depending on the potatoes to bring him some money when he would sell them.
One morning he got out of bed very early and as he looked in the direction of the garden he saw a man rolling along the drills and when he got nearer he found that the man was his neighbour.
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“Once when a man was out milking his cows...”
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- J. Hayes
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Brodeen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- T. Cavanagh
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary