School: Mell, Mell N. School, Drogheda (roll number 855)
- Location:
- Meille, Co. Lú
- Teacher: E. Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0678, Page 064
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- There once lived a woman in king Williams glen. She was a Catholic and then she turned a Protestant and then she turned a Catholic and the last time she turned a Protestant. One day she was out walking when she fell in to a hole. And she comes in the form of a turkey cock.
- Collector
- Treasa Wall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meille, Co. Lú
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Cormick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meille, Co. Lú
- Children stand in a line catching one another with the biggest in the front who is called the sean chearc. A child stands out in front of her who is called coilichín coch. Then the séan chearc and coilichín coch take special names as Michael and Mary, they don't tell the others. Then the coilichín coch gets a sop of straw as a pipe and gives a pull out of it to the sean chearc(continues on next page)
