School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 224
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- (continued from previous page)No. 2. As I lay down my head to sleep
I give my soul to God to keep.
When any evil spirit trouble's me
I pray sweet Jesus waken me
There are four corners on my bed
There are four angles over head
Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
God bless the bed that I sleep on.
No. 3. When a person gets a sting of a nettle a dock is rubbed to it and they say docken, docken, in and out.
Take the sting of the nettle out.
No. 4. A sunny shower
Will never last an hour.
No. 5. Three crooked pigs in a roy field
Hoking three plump pattersiches
Two fat ducks and a fine fat hen.
No. 6. Slither me in slither me out
Slither me in a bottle of stout.
No. 7 The cuckoo comes in April
Sings her song in May
In the middle of June she changes her tune,
And then she flies away.
No. 8. A sunny shower
Will never last an hour.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ellen Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonyfoyle, Co. an Chabháin
