School: Baile an Londraigh (C.) (roll number 14306)
- Location:
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eibhlís, Bean Uí Shíoda
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile an Londraigh (C.)
- XML Page 125
- XML “Funny Stories”
- XML “Funny Stories”
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
- Two men lived in Ballylanders some time ago - one of them had a blind eye and the other had a hump on his back. They met in the village one morning and the blind man said to the humpy man - "Its not now you are going out its early you have your load on your back." "Well" said the humpy man - it must be early when you have only one of your shutters down."
- Informant
- John Coleman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 80
- Address
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
- II.
A story heard locally by myself.:-
An old man John Marnane now dead lived in Kilgarriff about two miles from Ballylanders. He had some dealing with a neighbour over meadows but they fell out and there was no way left but to go to law. He went to a solicitor who advised him to try and settle with the neighbour and to let him know by a certain day so that he would not proceed with the law.
On the day named John met his opponent at a fair here in the street and they failed to make(continues on next page)