School: Cill Dá Lua (B.)
- Location:
- Killaloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Loingsigh
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- The following are some sayings which ae peculiar to this district:-
As big as Dan Gallerys Pike.
When a person is boasting about the size of anything, another person may say in a sarcastic manner "Oh, it is as big as Dan Gallerys pike"
Dan who is now dead was a noted liar and spent most of his life fishing on Lough Derg. All his incredible yarns delt with his adventure as a fisherman. If by a rare piece of luck he hooked a small miserable pike he who tell everybody whom he met that night that he had landed after a desperat struggle with a monster pike. thus the saying "As big as Dan Gallerys pike has found its way into the every day conversation(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joseph Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- James Hayes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killaloe, Co. Clare