School: Kilturk (B.)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0878, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)of sceachs. All of a sudden one of the men who had been carrying the corpse spoke and then all the men began to argue but the auld army man couldn't make out a word anybody said. After about a quarter of an hour of "blatherin" and argin a big fella too off his cap, and scratched his head, and sez he "Lookit here now lads we've carried this far enough, we must make Jerry there carry it" "Pon me sowl" says Jerry and he lepping out through the sceachs "I'm bad enough without lugging that to the grave-yard" and wud that he ran home with his breath in his fist and made(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Peter Lambert
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Hill, Co. Wexford
