School: Tobar Pádraig (roll number 4764)
- Location:
- Patrickswell, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Anraoi Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)gréinseachán - gruel boiled wheat.St. Martin (St. Martin's Day 11th September. On that night a hen is killed in his honour as the mill refused to grind.
St. Martin sat a field with wheat. Owing to a lack of rain he was forced to sprinkle the wheat with a watering-can. A woman came to the door of the house. St. Martin's mother had wheat on the floor. The woman asked leave to boil(cont. bottom of opp. page) - When Our Lord was passing through a cornfield he told the sowers to tell the soldiers that He had not passed there since the corn was sown. The corn sprang up over-night. The soldiers came and inquired. The sowers replied as directed by Our Lord. But.
The Dearga-Daol - "Indé, Indé." Since then this beetle is detested. - "Ó luighim ins a leaba seo mar luighim ins an uaigh,
Mo ghradhin's (?) mo chumha leat a ghaoil
Dhera mochón! agus a phardún ort-sa ' ch (?)
A Choír (?) Íosa Críost,
Dhera m'ochón agus a phardún
In ainm an Athar agus an Mhic agus an Spirid Naoimh."