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School: An Pasáiste Thoir (B.), Port Láirge

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Passage East, Co. Waterford
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Proinnsias Ó Heachthigheirn
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    Robin Pottle was a farmer who lived out at Raheen about two miles from the village of Passage East. One Friday the workmen went in for their dinner. They had potatoes and salt. Robin Pottle's wife had cockles on the fire cooking for their own dinner. So the workmen took up the cockles and put the potatoe skins into the pot. When they were passing out from their dinner they shouted to the mistress "If you don't look at those cockles they will be boiled into skins."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Raheen, Co. Waterford
    Collector
    William Hearne
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs K. Elliot
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 76
    Address
    Passage East, Co. Waterford