School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 279
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- At night when the hens are roosting they make up their minds to go back to Scotland for it is said that it was from Scotland they came.
But in the morning they all fly out of the hen-house and when they wet their feet in the mud they forget all about it.
So now if anyone forgets to do anything he said he would do, people say to him:- "Indeed you will, like the hens going to Scotland.
- Hughie Fitzpatrick died about a year ago. He was an old man with a stick, and about seventy years of age when he died.(continues on next page)
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- Nano Myles
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