School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)
- Location:
- Mohober, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)4. One day a man was walking down the street of Callan, and he had a very long moustache which covered his mouth. As he was going down the street, several boys followed him laughing and he said to them "Will ye go away out of that and stop laughing" and one of the boys said "Didn't I tell you he had a mouth".5. There was an old woman living in a certain house and when she was dying, she sent for the priest. When he came the woman said "Do you think is there any hope for me" and the priest said, "You will be in Heaven before your feet are cauld" and the woman said "Begob Father, won't that be cruel skelpin".6. A lady in the olden days used make a big pot of porridge for her men every night. One night, a man came in and he sat at the table and she gave him a plate of it. She put his hands around it and she asked him why he was not eating it or had he a spoon, and he said "O begor mam, I'm afraid to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lilly Blackmore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Blackmore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Fennelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Foilmarnell Upper, Co. Tipperary
