School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)

Location:
Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 022

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 022

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    Prayer:- That you may live as long as you have lived, and as long more, and three times that and all put together and one year more will make you 100. What age was he when the prayer was said for him.
    (Ans. 8 yrs. 3 mths)
    What stone four weights will weigh any even weight from one stone to forty?
    (Ans. 1, 3, 9, 27,
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Whatever brawls disturb the street,
    There should be peace at home,
    Where sisters dwell and brothers meet,
    Quarrels should never come.
    Birds in their little nests agree
    And 'tis a shameful sight,
    When children of one family
    Fall out and chide and fight.
    Hard names are first and threatening words
    That are but noisy breath
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr P. Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40