School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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“One night there was a servant-girl lighting a candle at the fire, and she couldn't light it with the coal of fire.”
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- Gerald Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Garraí an tSeanbhaile, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Doyle
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Garraí an tSeanbhaile, Co. Chiarraí
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“There was a man and he used be stealing potatoes from his brother who was a farmer.”
There was a man and he used be staling potatoes from his brother who was a farmer. One night he got four others to go with him and they 'carried' four cliabhs. They took the potatoes and the four men took four cliabhs with one more with no cliabh to help them if they got tired. They came into the next field and the cliabhs were lifted off of their backs a big skit of laughing was heard. When they lifted the cliabhs and went into the next field then the cliabhs were lifted off of their backs again. Then says one of them: "If the divil carried them we'll put them up again." So they put them up and they were not lifted any more.
Told by Mrs Margaret Lyons, Garryantanavalla
Written by Gerald Doyle