School: An Cruachán (roll number 5243)
- Location:
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Chearra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 361
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13. Black I am and well admired men and horses, I have tired, Gold and silver I have wrought, and now i'm in the midden laid.
Coal.
16. They cut my hair and shoved my face and brought me from my dwelling-place. Tired horse and glad men when they had me at my own town end
Turf.
15. On green gravel I do travel on black-oak I stand. I ride the mare that never was foaled with the bridal in my hand
A boat
16. As I sat on my hunkers and looked through my blinkers, I saw the dead burying the living.
The dead ashes burying the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Brown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
