School: Glenalla (roll number 10744)
- Location:
- Glenalla, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Maude McCormack
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- Hard working father lazy old mother twelve black children all like another. Whats that? A Clock.A beautiful maid in this garden was laid as bright as the flowers in the morn, this maid was a bride before she died and she died before she was born. Whats that? Eve.There was a man rode through this town. Great Gristle was his name and saddle [laps ?] were filled with gold, three times I told his name. What was his name? Was. Constantinople is a big big word if you can’t spell it you’re a big big dunce. It.As I was sitting on my hunkers looking through my Gunkers I saw the dead burying the living. Whats that? The ashes covering the coals.As I went over Derry bridge I met a [moat ?] man with thirteen patches on his trousers. What time was it? It was time he was getting a new pain.Hody dody wee black body three foot and a wooden bonnet? A pot with a wooden lid.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenalla, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Glenalla, Co. Donegal