School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 272
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“It was good reaping - with the hook 0 to cut a quarter of an (Irish) acre in a day.”
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- Riddle:Twenty four white cows sitting in a stall. Up comes the red one and licks them all.
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“Rockbawn = ? Ráth Bán = The land north of Maghera, west of Páirc Bhúidhe and east of Gort na dTor on the parish of Croom.”
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“And when great deeds are for the telling, let there be a man from Croom to tell of the glory of cutting a seventy acre field of waving golden wheat and that in a reaper's day.”
And when great deeds are the telling, let there be a man from Croom to tell of the glory of cutting a seventy acre field of waving golden wheat and that in a reaper's day. His day was not as that of the mowers for the latter whetted blade and bent back(continues on next page)