School: Muine Mór
- Location:
- Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0196, Page 018
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- In the garden was laid a most beautiful maid. She was as brig[ht] and clear as the morning. The first night of her life she became a wife and she died before she was born. Eve. What has four feet a head and a foot. A bed. What smokes and never chews. A fire. Where did Noah strike the first nail in the ark. On the head. Headed like a timble tailed lik[e] a rat. A pipe. What runs without feet. A river. What goes from house to house and lies out at night. A path.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
