The subject also occurs in folk-tales
We recorded this story from a Clareman, a neighbour of the above singer, a fisherman/farmer named Mikey Kelleher who had moved from Clare to England in the late 1940s and had never returned
We recorded him in Deptford, South East London

"A Quilty man was working in the fields when he jagged his leg on a piece of barbed wire
He didn't do anything about it for weeks until at last it got so sore the was forced to go to Ennis Hospital
The doctor look at it and told him the cut had become so bad that his leg would have to be removed.
The day after the operation, he was visited by a neighbour who asked him how he was.
"Good news and bad news" he replied
"What's the bad news" he asked
"Well, they operated yesterday and they cut the wrong leg off"
"God, Michael, that's terrible"
"Not too bad" he said, "the other one's getting better"

Jim Carroll