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School: Allenwood

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Allenwood, Co. Kildare
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Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 197

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    “If anybody has a crowing hen old people say they should let her off where three roads meet.”

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    If anybody has a crowing hen old people say they should let her off where three roads meet.
    The old people say if a cock crows in the night somebody is going to die, and if the cock crows nine times something is going to happen the person who heard him.
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    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
      2. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    2. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    3. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
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    Q. Why does a cow dribble?
    A. Because she cannot spit.
    Q. Around the wood and round the wood and never tips (?) the wood.
    A. The bark of a tree.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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