School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 380
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- (continued from previous page)own house and after a while the lads came in. She never let on that she knew anything.
Later on in the night they were all sitting around the fire they were singing songs and asking riddles. When it came to the girls turn she said,
"One moonlight night as I sat high watching one and two pass by the tree did shake my heart did ache to see the hole for did make"
- One night there was a man going home from playing cards. On his way he had to leap a big ditch. The man leaped the ditch and he thought he was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ennis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrymullen, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mr Boland
- Gender
- Male
