School: Clonmel Convent (roll number 12180)
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Peadar
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567C, Page 15_005
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clonmel Convent
- XML Page 15_005
- XML “A Funny Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
A Funny Story
“There is a half simpleton in our Town known as Charley, - noted for his witty sayings.”
1st Sept. 1938
A Funny Story
There is a half simpleton in our Town known as Charley, - noted for his witty sayings. An old woman who was going shopping one evening asked Charley if a certain shop keeper had pig's feet.
Begora" said Charley in reply "I never saw the man with his boots off."
On another occasion another shopkeeper asked Charley to empty a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Harding
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs M. Harding
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary