School: Geashill (1)

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    Pat Malone and the barrel.
    Once upon a time there lived a man in
    Newtown in the parish of Killeigh named Pat
    Malone. One day he went out this his gun to
    hunt. It happened that English soldiers were out
    with hounds hunting also. They met him in the
    field and planned to make fun of him. They got
    a barrel and covered in the top of it to keep
    him in it. They left him there and went off. But
    when the dogs were coming back they knew there
    something in the barrel. There was a hole in it
    and one dog got his tail caught in it. He got
    frightened and ran off dragging the barrel
    with him. He never stopped running until he
    reached Ballinagar and the people were
    coming home from Mass. The dog lay down and
    was not able to go any further and the soldiers spent the day looking for him. So if the soldiers
    made fun of him Pat made fun of them.
    Story got from Peter Dempsey, Killelary, Geashill,, age 12 years.
    He heard it from his grandfather Martin Dempsey, same address
    age 76 years. Farmer.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Dempsey
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Killellery, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Martin Dempsey
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Killellery, Co. Offaly