School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038, Page 0067
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- (continued from previous page)It grew in the wood, the cow calved it
The tanner tanned it
And the blacksmith works it.
Bellows.
A lepper of ditches
A clapper of thorns
A tiny wee fellow with leather horns
A Rabbit.
As i went up the muddy gap
A man with a red cape
A stick in his head, a stone in his middle
A Haw.
It grows in the wood it sounds in the town
it earns for its master many a half crown.
Violin.
It flies high, it flies low it wears boots and it has none.
A Football.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lissyconor, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Lissyconor, Co. Galway
