School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 025
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Dunlavin (B.)
- XML Page 025
- XML “A Funny Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In the year 1897 a man and his son named Cullen came from Kilgowan to Dunlavin a distance of three miles, to sell cabbage.
It was Saturday and the priests were hearing confessions in Dunlavin Church. When they were passing by the church the father told his son to mind the cabbage while he was at confession.
When the man went into the confessional box he was making the sign of the Cross, he said "In the of the Father and of the Holy Ghost Amen." The priest asked him where did he leave the "Son," the father replied that he left him ouside to mind the cabbage and not let anyone steal it.
- Collector
- Peter Grace
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Uppertown, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr T. Grace
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Uppertown, Co. Wicklow
