School: An Daingean, Cuinche
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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“There was a man one time who lived on a mountain.”
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18.4'38.This story was told to John Lynch ,by his father ,John Lynch,Cullane, Kilkishen.
There was a man one time who lived on a mountain.He used to look after a herd of goats, Monday and Sunday ,and never went to Mass.One day the priest was going through the mountain and met the man.The priest asked him had he his prayers and the poor man answered "No, I know nothing about them".The priest said he would name the goats as his prayers,so that he would think of them .The man said "All right".So the priest named the goats "Our Father who art in Heaven"and "Holy Mary".The priest said he hoped he would remember them until he would come again.When he came back the man said that "Our Father pucked "who art in Heaven "into a trench,and that "Holy Mary "drowned herself.
- Collector
- John Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullaun, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Lynch
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullaun, Co. Clare
- Old Sayings.
We should't raise up old sores.
Let the dead rest.
let what you hear in one ear and out the other.
He is as honest as the priest himself
