School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 162
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“There was a man who had five daughters...”
(continued from previous page)happened every morning and the third day the bride asked her husband "Did he get this food every day and the servants getting good food" but he said. "No, because the servants are working and we are not." So she said I will work too and she became the best worker of them all.
The father wanted to know how she was getting on. He gave a party and invited all his daughters and their husbands. He said to the husbands. "I bet you my wife is a better worker than your wives." The first man bet £10 that his wife was better and so on they were all rising £10. The last man who was the young farmer bet £50 that his wife was the best worker. The women were in the kitchen playing cards so they agreed that the quickest to come when they would be called would be the best worker. The father(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Seán Ó Conaill
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80