School: Killeigh
- Location:
- Killeigh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Amhalghaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0804, Page 056
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- Last night six weeks ago I received a letter of an old hags death. I was so overjoyed with the sad news that every tear that fell from my nose would split six fathoms of turf or set a mill going. After that I took a fit of running with my two shin-bones in my pocket and my head under my arms. I met John Jervis, hackney coachman driving six dead jack-asses under an empty steam coach. It was loaded with three roasted mill-stones and seventy seven magpies.
- Once a man from the West of Ireland was down in Kildare cutting corn. When he finished he went into a shop to buy some meat before he started home. The butcher had bladders hanging from the roof. The poor man did not know what they were. The butcher was a funny man, and when the poor man asked him what they were, he said they were race mare's eggs and that he would sell them for sixpence.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr. Kirwan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvally, Co. Offaly
