School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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- There were two brothers one time called William and Thomas and they were very clever. Their father was in town one day and he bought a new trousers. The next day when their father was out at work, the sons saw the new trousers and they said to themselves that they would get two suits made out of it. So they cut it up into square pieces, and they divided the pieces into parcels one each to go to the tailor who lived about a mile away. When they were coming near the tailor's house the two boys fell out and threw the two parcels over the ditch. They turned to go home, but they were afraid to go home.
They lived on turnips for three or four days in an out farm close to their home. One evening they went near home and they vied with one another to see which of them would go in.
As there was a pot of stirabout cooling at entrance, Thomas went in and swept the pot and ran for a big pond that was in front of the door and his father after him. When he reached the edge of the pond he turned short and in goes his father on top of his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Statia Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Aidan Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
