School: Tomghéis (roll number 9239/9277)
- Location:
- Tumgesh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Casaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0123, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)Little Jenny Jane, sitting in her cage all, her children died with age and she is there herself still
A bush with all its haws gone.
As I went round the house I looked in the window and I saw the dead burying the living.
A woman raking the fire.
Trí cós anáirde dhá cor ar an talamh ceann ar deine beo 's bheál ar duir marbh:
Fear le coram ar a einn
Two feet under and three feet overhead, the head of a living person and the mouth of a dead one.
A man carrying a pot on his head.
It's with the cart and the cart can't go without it
Noise
It's as round as an apple it's as sharp as a spear all the men in Londondeery would not carry it to France.
The sun
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- Collector
- Eileen Neary
- Gender
- Female
