School: Gallach (roll number 16464)
- Location:
- Gallagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoiléidigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 083
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Gallach
- XML Page 083
- XML “Liam na gCleas”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There was a man down in Lehenaugh named Liam na gCleas, about one mile from Castleblakeney. He was a great wit. He was noted all over the Co. Galway to be such a great wit. Once he went to confession to a priest down in Ballygar named Father Patrick Mc Govern. He had some great sin and the penanace he gave him was to do three stations on Patrick's reek (Croah Patrick). One morning the priest got up at about six o'clock and when he went out in the Farmyard and he had a big reek of turf in the yard. He saw Liam na gCleas on top of the reek and he walking up and down the reek with his beeds in his hands and the turf falling on all sides. "What are you doing there Liam" said the priest. Im doing three stations on patrick's reek and aren't you Patrick Mc Govern. Come down out of that said the priest and he had a good laugh at him. There(continues on next page)
- Collector
- null
- Gender
- Male
