School: Corlatty Carroll
- Location:
- Corr Leacht Uí Chearúill, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Jas. Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 250
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- Tailors are always looked upon as very bad specimens of manhood. There is a saying that it takes nine tailors to make a man. The following rhyme about tailors was often heard in this locality -Four and twenty tailors went out to slay a snail.
The bravest man among them trod upon its tail.
The snail turned round his homes like a cow
Help! cried the tailors or we're all dead men now.
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- Collector
- Hugh Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Anna, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- James Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Cill Anna, Co. an Chabháin
