School: An Chathair Gharbh (roll number 13896)
- Location:
- An Chathair Gharbh, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Dubhghaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 363
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: An Chathair Gharbh
- XML Page 363
- XML (no title)
- XML “Puxley”
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
(no title)
“Long ago the boys used not get any shoes until they reached their twentieth year.”
Long ago the boys used not get any shoes until they reached their twentieth year. A certain man had a family of three boys & two girls. The eldest of the boys was Bill. When Bill reached his twentieth year he got a pair a pair of shoes. When the father would tell any other one of the family to go for a message they would all refuse & say "let Bill go so he got the pair of shoes".
- Collector
- Seán C. Ó Súilliobháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Concubhar Ó Suilliobháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Long ago Puxley agents went to a man in Grauns named Bill Lehane for rent or to take possession of his land. It happened in the Autumn. When they went west Bill tied himself to a crowbar in the field as he would not go over the Cliff because Grauns is a very steep place. When they
