School: Ballydaniel (roll number 13892)
- Location:
- Ballydaniel, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Micheál Mac Amhlaoimh
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- (continued from previous page)There was a man ne'er a man
Has a gun ne'er a gun
Shot a bird ne'er a bird
In a tree neer a tree.A boy with a pop-gun, shooting a bumble-bee on a thistle.
Through a rock, through a "ree".(?)
Through an old oak tree.
Through a basin full of pepper.
Through an old car-lepper.
Through a man's shin-bone
Through a thing that was never known?A cannon ball.
Then she is across the road
And the priest's breakfast for a load?A hen with an egg.
As green as grass,
Goes white to mass?Flax.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alice Mullan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Threecastles, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Maher
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Threecastles, Co. Kilkenny