School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 025
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- (continued from previous page)3 This is sack that held the mat that lay in house that jack built.
This continues until final rhyme is "this is the cock that crow is in the moon, that washed miror all shaven and shorn, that married the lord all batted and lorn is the maiden all forlorn, that milked the cow with the crummely horn, that housed the little dog run the barn, that wormed the cat, that billed the vet, that cut the cord, that tied the sack, that held the malt, that lay in the house that jack built.
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- Collector
- Michael Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corrinary, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Owen Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Corrinary, Co. Monaghan
