School: Gaigue (B.), Ballinamuck (roll number 13305)
- Location:
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peter Duignan
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- About fifty years ago there lived in Upper Gaigue a man called Paura Larkin and he was called Paura Bawn. Rogers lives in the house now. Paura had a goose sitting on eggs under the dresser and a neighbour came into the house one night on a cayley. Paura went to see how the goose was getting on and he was agreeably surprised to find a Gosling out of its sheel. "You are welcome out" says he to the gosling. The neighbour said to himself. "Your welcome out as Paura Bawn said to the gosling" At a fair in Galway soon after the people were all saying "Your welcome out as Paura Bawn said to the Gosling".
The saying is used when someone comes unexpectedly or when a person meets one that has been confined to the house for a long time. Sometimes when a person has delayed in paying a promised visit he is met with the ironical statement "Your welcome out as Paura Bawn said to the Gosling.- Collector
- John Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
- Informant
- James Farrell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gaigue, Co. Longford