(no title) “Once upon a time a shepherd was minding a flock of sheep. He found a lovely daisy. He picked it up and brought it home and he put it in a box in his room.” CBÉS 0862 Katty Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One time it happened that two brothers named John and Pat Dowling lived together in an old house.” CBÉS 0863 Maggie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One time there lived a poor man. He earned his living by breaking stone. Not far from where he was breaking the stones, there lived a miser.” CBÉS 0863 Maggie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One time there was a woman living by her-self in a house. When she was about to die her little grandchild came to mind her.” CBÉS 0863 Bridie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One time old John Butler and his wife were visiting their friends in Ballyragget. About four o' clock they were leaving the house to go home.” CBÉS 0863 Maggie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “Once upon a time there was a man and his wife living in a house together. A little man used to come in every night for lodging, this night he knocked at the door.” CBÉS 0863 Bridie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “In Old Leighlin there is a protestant church and a burial-ground and catholics do be buried in it also. Every night at ten o'clock a dead coach used to be seen passing from Old Leighlin to Shanakill which was a distance of about four miles from Old Leighl” CBÉS 0863 Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One night there were three or four men coming home from town. They were merry and they did not care what they met.” CBÉS 0863 Maggie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One time there lived a poor man, who had three sons. When he was dying he had nothing to give them but a big tree.” CBÉS 0863 Maggie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One time there was a woman and seven children living in a little house beside a bog. It was a turf bog and it belonged to her. She had some dislike to her neighbours and she would not let them get the turf out of the bog.” CBÉS 0863 Maggie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript
(no title) “One time there lived a poor man named Bill Ronan. He had only two cattle. This day he went to the fair with them.” CBÉS 0863 Maggie Manning, Patrick Manning Transcript