School: Newtownanner, Cluain Meala (roll number 1559)
- Location:
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 102
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- (continued from previous page)He had some distance to go to meet his companions. He was waiting for them beside a ditch. He heard some voices and he thought they were coming. One of them was a nervous kind of man. When he thought they were coming he got under the ditch at the other side to frighten them. There were hundreds of people came up to the ditch. They had great gibbage and he could not understand it. They came again and again and it was hurling they were. They were all fairies.
- As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, half a woman, and half a man.
Answer, A penny.
I went to the wood and I got it. I sat down to look for it, and I came home because I could not find it.
Answer, A thorn in your finger
Punch asn Judy went for a race, up the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kitty Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Patrick Burke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
