School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Fiodh Alúine, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 250
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“Old people say Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.”
(continued from previous page)people open the window to let the soul take flight when it leaves the body. When there is a corpse in the house the dust is swept in under the bed and the clock is stopped.Brigid Ennis, Derrymullen, Robertstown, Naas, Co. Kildare.Games.When children are small people have old rhymes for keeping them used. Some of them are:- Here's where the hen lays, here is where the cock crows, here is when the egg reels down". "Eye winker torn tinker, nose dropper, mouth eater, chin chopper, chin chopper, chin".
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- Collector
- Brigid Ennis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Mhuilinn, Co. Chill Dara
