School: Gort na Carraige (Rockfield) (roll number 9009)

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1. A Funny Story

   

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   E’re last night about three weeks ago I received a letter of an old hag’s death and every tear that came from the back part of my heart would split seven fathoms of a turf bank or set a mill a going. So I started off, put my two shin bones in my pocket and my head under my arm, and who did I meet but my Grandfather threshing peas. One pea hopped over a six-foot wall, hit a dead dog that was barking at a pock marked cat and she knitting a pair of stockings for the moon. I gave him a kick and turned him inside out but he only barked at me. Further on, I went through a cabbage field and the stalks were as long as from Patrick’s Day to America and every one of them bleeding from both nostrils. I met a man and asked him the road to Molly Maguires and he told me she lived upon a high hill, down in a low hollow, where the cocks never crew, where the winds never blew and where there were nineteen families all living together.

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   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. scéalta grinn (~6,086)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ethna Keegan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Templenew, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Informant

   Pat Mulhern

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   68

   Address

   Lios an Chollaigh, Co. Dhún na nGall