School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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“Uncle Bob stopped with his aunt in Ballymurren.”
Uncle Bob stopped with his aunt in Ballymurren
He got up this morning anyhow an' he went out for butter to the dairy for his breakfast.
When he went to the door it was all covered with mouldy butter,
an' when he went inside, it was the same.
He went to his aunt an' asked her
what was wrong with the butter.
He tould her all about it. She tould
him that the butter was gone
They were churning a couple of
days after, "An be whip to it, if I
was to stay churning all day I'd
never have a bit of butter only a
churn of froth," says Bob.There was a fairy man living near by. an Bob went to him an' tauld him his story. The fairy man went down in a room and started to go around it.
After a certain length of time he stopped at one spot in the room.An' "Be whip to it" says Bob, "you could hear milk flowin' in all quarters an'(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alice Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolnagree, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Patrick Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Coolnagree, Co. Wexford