School: An Bealach, Crosaire an Ghúlaigh (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Diarmuid Mac Fhloinn
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- (continued from previous page)and he sat on a bank and all the beetles went into his breeches and while he was giving the sermon the beetles began to bite him and he finished up by saying that "God is in my mouth and the devil is in my breeches".
- There were two boys going down a road one day and they met a priest and the priest said "I see you are christian brother boys" The boys said "Yes father" "I suppose you are very smart" he said "Now did you ever say your prayers in Latin" "O we did father and in Emly three miles farther"
- Informant
- Mr Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Tipperary
- There was this man and he had a large family and he was very fond of porter and nearly every night he would be drunk. But one day the priest met him and he said to him to know could he give it up drinking porter so(continues on next page)
