School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)for a little while talking. Then the Englishman said that it was a fine bridge, and the Yankee said that it was the biggest bridge in the world. "It isn't" said the Clareman, "our bridge is the biggest in the world, Six-mile-bridge."
- Once upon a time a farmer had two labourers working for him. One day they had a herring for their dinner between them. As they were eating, the farmer came in. He had a fat pig to be killed and he asked one of the men, "what time of the year is it right to kill a pig." One said, "When the moon is swelling." Then he asked the other man who said, "It is right to kill a pig when you see a herring between two for dinner."
- Collector
- Patrick J. Considine
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coonagh East, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Patrick Considine
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Coonagh East, Co. Limerick
- Once upon a time three men passed along a marsh. They met another man whom they killed. There was a guard looking at them(continues on next page)