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School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

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Adamstown, Co. Wexford
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Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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    “I often dug in the ould rath but I never found anything in it.”

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    Be the wrip-stick I dug one day from three hours an I was nothing the better. There is three holes in the rath where some other people dug. There is said to be money buried in this ould place.
    I was going through it one night, and I just broke my neck with one of there I fell down into one of them I never liked going through the rath afterwards.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coolnagree, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mat Wickham
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Coolnagree, Co. Wexford