School: Carniska (roll number 1681)

Location:
Carrownaskeagh, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Richard Healy
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    only stand at the room door and say "Shout them out me old warrior"
    When he would ask wadding some old man would say Wait father. I have some in my old coat" Another would give him a bit of wool and he would say I'll woll ye. But Michael ONeill's wife had a row with him. She told him her house might be just as good as where he was reared and that she had lots of clean things that he did not see at all.
    Once a woman was alone in here own home. She happened to look up on the loft. She saw a man dressed in white looking dow at her. The woman fainted and the man dissepered.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs F. Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Castlenode, Co. Roscommon