School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)
- Location:
- Mungret, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs B. Mulroy
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- An old woman named Maig the trotter lived in Islandwane long ago. She was going to Limerick on a Saturday and a neighbour named Mrs Fitzgerald asked her to bring a half an ounce of cream of Tartar. She thought she would not remember this rigmarole of a name so she went to Madigan the smith tow rite it down for her and this is what he wrote.
"Please give to Maig the Trotter
A half an ounce of cream of Tartar
For an Islandware Imposter." - There is a man named John Ryan in Patrickswell in the parish of Mungret. He is very fond of saying every thing in Rhyme. One Sunday he knocked at a public house door to get his milk and he could not get any answer. So he called out in a loud voice
"I am no traveller,(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Patrickswell, Co. Limerick