Scoil: Cluain Meacan (uimhir rolla 11451)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal)

   “Long ago there were two farming women living in a townland.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Long ago there were two farming women living in a townland. One day one of the women went out to make the barrel of butter in the dairy which was going at that time. She started at making the barrel at four o'clock in the morning and had not it done for ten o'clock. At that time a tailor was going from house to house looking for shelter. The people that used to keep him used charge him nothing for his lodgings but he used to make and mend the clothes for them. At that that time he was staying at the house of the woman that was making the barrel. The tailor got up at eight o'clock and had his breakfast first and then started to make clothes. Then the woman of the house came in out of the dairy and said to him that if any woman came in for a coal of fire not to give it to her. The tailor continued with his work and soon in came a woman for a coal to light the fire. The tailor said nothing only went on with his work and the woman took the coal with her. When the woman went out the man went to the fire as well and took a coal and put it into the butter peck. The woman came twice after that and took a coal each time and the man took a coal each time the woman took it and

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Keane

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Thomas Halpin

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   40

   Seoladh

   An Dromainn, Co. Chiarraí