School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- (continued from previous page)the three streams met. He didn't say what it would cure.
- A cripple went into a cobbler's shop for repairs. The cobbler did whatever was wanted. He expected to be paid for his work but he was disappointed. Neither of them said anything for a minute or so and then the cripple, seeing that something was expected from him spoke and what he said was:
"If I had only Damer's riches, I'd pay you nicely for your stitches" and the cobbler being a bit of a poet himself said back: "Cripples going about on crutches, I don't charge them for my stitches. - Damer was a very rich man. He lived in Tipperary on the Limerick border near Cappamore. When I was a young lad I used to hear of him in song and in story. He had a beautiful mansion with beautiful entrance gates hung on wonderfully carved piers. On there he had cut the words "What cannot men and money do". A poor poet passing by read the line and put under it: "All the men and money in this place,
Couldn't put a handsome nose on Damer's face".- Collector
- Daithí O Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- In connection with the fragment of a story which I noted on page 117 and (continued on) page 131 and which [Continued on page 744(continues on next page)