School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: D. Curtis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 021
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- There was a man wan time
be the name of Joe Whitmore,
and he lived in Clonroche,
Co Wexford, some years ago,
and he used to stutter.
He was walkin' towards Ballymackessy, near Clonroche,
an he met a strange man in a
grand pony and trap, and
this man asked Joe how he
would get to Clonroche.
Joe told him to g - g - g - go
u - u - up to the c - c - cross r - r -
roads, ah, g - g - go on ow
t - t - that b - b - because y - you
would be t - there b - before I w - w -would h - have y - you t - told.
- Collector
- Maureen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockreigh, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Philip Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Knockreigh, Co. Wexford
