School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 17_004
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- (continued from previous page)their abroad and she has abotu a hundred cloaks on her. What is that? It is a head of cabbock.
It is under the fire and over the fire and never tutches the fire. What is that? it is a cake in a pan.
As I went in a thorn gap I met my uncle davey I cut his headd and drank his bload and left him lying easy. What is that. It is a blackberry.
Opens like a barn door shuts like a trap you may guess for ever but you cannot guess that. What is that. It is a numbrella.
As white a milk as black as silk and hopps on the road like a healston. What is that. It is a mackpy.
Why do we go to bed. What is that. Because the bed will not come for us.
The man that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Corrigan
- Gender
- Female
