The Miserly Priest of Donabate
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About 60 years ago [around 1880] there lived a curate in Donabate named Reverend Father O'Neill. This priest was a thrifty, mean, odd, old man, and was known as a miserly priest. One day this priest ordered a sack of potatoes from a man in the Burrow. When the man was bringing the potatoes up to the priest, he brought an extra bag for him as a present. When the man arrived at the priest's house, he told the priest he had an extra bag for him as a present. When the priest heard this, he said to the man, give me the bag of potatoes you are giving me for nothing, and bring home the other sack. So the man brought home the other sack, and gave the other to the priest for nothing. Collected by Noel Kinsella from Andrew Howard aged 80 of Beaverstown, County Dublin
