School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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- (continued from previous page)What is it that goes around the house with its head down. The nails in your boots.
- In came two legs sat down upon three legs and put one leg on her lap in came four legs ran away with with one leg, up got two legs threw three legs after four legs to get back one leg.
A man throwing a three legged stool after a dog who ran away with a leg of mutton.
It grew in the wood with leaves on it, it grazed in the field with hair on it and now it is dead and live bones in it. A pair of clogs.
As I looked over a garden wall, I heard a voice it gave a call its tongue was flesh and its mouth was horn and such a man was never born.
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- Collector
- Brigid Hourigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Hourigan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary