School: Borris (B.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 334
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- There was a woman who lived in Clonmel be the name of Mrs Byrne. She had a fool of a son named Jack. One day when his mother sent him for bushes to light the fire. He went to middle of a field and commenced rooting. He found a crawl of sovereigns and he thought they were buttons and he brought them and gave them to his mother who put them under the bed in a box. She told Jack that if the landlord come tell him to get two fists fuls and if he dipped the third time hit him a clout of the hatchet. The landlord came and he was going to dip the third when Jack hit him with the hatchet and killed him dead.
- Collector
- James Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cournellan, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Pat Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cournellan, Co. Carlow
