School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)little thing less than a mouse there are more windows in it, than in a kings house : - A thimble. A steely horse and a fla[?] tail riding over a boney bridge : - Sewing a button. A round as a marble as flat as a pan the whole of a woman and the half of a man : - A penny : - Black I am and red I'll be for many a man will injure me, He broke my face and split my skull and brought me out of my native land : - A sod of turf : There is a little cow with two leather horns a jumper of ditches and a leaper of thorns : - A hare. In what month do soldiers march most : - In the month of March.
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- Collector
- Kathleen Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drinagh East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drinagh East, Co. Cork
