School: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Flannan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 120
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“A blacksmith named Pat Clery who lived about one mile from Rathcabbin....”
A blacksmith named Pat Clery who lived about one mile from Rathcabbin, has a hen, and this hen used lay an egg in a corner of the forge every day. One day Pat happened to be in very bad humour. Everything seemed to upset him. The hen sat on her nest quite calmly, but when she had laid the egg she cackled at an awful rate.This irritated Pat, and he proceeded to hunt the hen away, but her cackling never ceased. Finally, he lost his patience and on seeing the egg she had laid threw it after her, and shouting at the top of his voice said "Hen! you are making such a compliment of your old egg - take it with you".
- Informant
- William Rigney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Oibrí
- Address
- Rathcabban, Co. Tipperary