School: Corlea

Location:
Corlea, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
T. Ó Mearáin
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    man kept breaking away at the stones. They who lost the money came back in a month and they asked the old man did he ever see a leather bag on the road. He told them he got a leather bog of money one time. They asked him was it long ago and he said it was a few days before he went to school. So the men laughed and drove on their horse. The men were going about from town to town making banks. It was the time before banks came out this happened
    Told to me by
    Michael Hand
    Collops
    Kingscourt
    Age 80
    Terence Farrelly
    Collops
    Kingscourt
    Co Cavan
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Terence Farrelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Collops, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Michael Hand
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Collops, Co. Cavan