School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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- (continued from previous page)One day he baked a terrible lot of bread and gave it all off. The baker put poison in one loaf. The old man did not know it, and, as the loaf was the biggest he took it himself. There was a tramp passing by in the evening and he called him in and asked him, "Was he hungry. So he said he was and then he told him to sit down and he would get him something. So he brought him the loaf and the posion in it and the man died. Some of that man's people are alive still.
- Once upon a time Paddy Irishman was terrible(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Devlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Joseph Devlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Donaguile, Co. Kilkenny
