School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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Over the fire and under the fire and never touches the fire
A cake in an oven
Why is it dangerous to go into the woods in Spring
Because the buds are shooting
Black and white and hops on the road like hail-stones
A mag-pie
What fortune do people not want to meet
Misfortune
As I went out my grandfather's gap I saw a man a hanging I took him down and drank his blood and left his body hanging
A cherry- Collector
- Ita Fleming
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garlagh Cross, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Bendan Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garlagh Cross, Co. Meath