School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)There was once a man who stole a pig. He went to the house where the pig was in the night, and he couldn't bring her home. He saw a rope hanging on the wall and he took it to tie it around the legs of the pig. A few days later he went to confession and said to the priest "I stole a rope sir I stole a rope sir." He said it again and again. The priest got tired of listening to him and said to him "why are you saying that so often." The man then answered "but there was a pig to the end of it."
- 1. Betty inside the wall, Betty outside the wall and it you go near Betty she will bit you?
A nettle
2. There is a little man that stands in the - 1. Betty inside the wall, Betty outside the wall and it you go near Betty she will bit you?
A nettle
2. There is a little man that stands in the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rita Cahill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
