School: Ráth na mBeach (roll number 17129)
- Location:
- Rathnamagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: R. Ó Gallchobhair
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In a garden there was laid a beautiful maid, as light and as fair as the morning, the first hour of her life she became a wife and died before she was born
EveIt goes round the house and round the house and never gets into the house
A nail in your shoeAs round as an apple as flat as a pan half a woman and half a man
A pennyIt goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets in the wood
The bark of a treeKing-Gcora had a ship an on the ship his daughter sat an I am not bound to tell her name an that three times I have said it plain
AnnWhats full and holds more
A pot of potatoes when you pour water inFour feet a head and a foot
A bedAs I went out the gap I saw a man with four (?) dogs routing the ground asunder
A (?)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sile Ní Gáinley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaskeehaun, Co. Mayo