School: Coillte Mághach (roll number 12520)
- Location:
- Kiltamagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0118, Page 289
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- use used to be:-Laorum larum lumber lock
Five miles set o'clock
I sat I sung my daily (?)
Alice my dear give me a spear
To go to the wood to kill
a fat deer
Butle, Bootle , Ballinaslaun (?)
My little white dog went over #
the mountain
Quit.This was done in the same way as Lonnabóg.Amongst the many other fireside pastimes was one in which a burnt stick, glowing at one end, was passed from one hand to another among those in the fireside circle. Each one had to repeat the following rhyme, or something like it, as fast as he or she could for fear of the brand dying in his hand because that eventuality entailed a forfeit -"Duillcán dé duilleán dé
Is maith a bhréugfad (?) leanbh é
Alive alive alive it'll be
If it die in my hand a geasa it'll be."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirtín Ó Cearbhaill
- Gender
- Male
