School: Duleek (C.) (roll number 3114)

Location:
Duleek, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchadha
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    duck eggs. She was gathering nettles for the ducks one day while it was raining. On her return she said to Paddy "I was out for a bag of rain and its teeming nettles"
    When she died four donkeys were yoked in a car and she was buried in Ardcath.
    Told by Patrick Smith
    Bolies
    Duleek
    aged 84
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. A man named Peter Sheerin lived in Larrix Street. He had a greyhound which he fed once a day. He went to Bellewstown Races and forgot to feed the hound.
    There was a man performing tricks with 4 mice at the Race Course.
    Peter was watching the man when suddenly he saw a greyhound a the middle
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Irwin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    47
    Address
    Duleek, Co. Meath