School: Gráig na Gréine (roll number 12819)
- Location:
- Graignagreana, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Anna Ní Shiocfhradha
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- 1 As white as milk and as black as silk and it hops on the ground like hailstone.
A magpie
2 As I went up a slippery rock I met my aunty Mary. She had timber toes and iron nose and upon my word she would frighten the crows.
A gun.
3 As I went down into the garden one day. I met my uncle Thady I cut off his head and brought it home and left his body easy.
A head of cabbage.
4 The leaper of the ditch and the cropper of the corn the little brown cow with two leather horns.
A hare(continues on next page)- Collector
- Seán O Cathasaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graignagreana, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Domhnall Ua Cathasaig
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graignagreana, Co. Kerry