School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 409
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- There are many old roads around this district.
For instance, there was a road beside my house, leading to a school, which was situated at the top of our wood, and surrounded by trees.
Its walls are not there now, but the only remains, that are there to the present day, are farly high ditches.
There is no trace of that road now, because it is very much wooded now, where it led to.
My daddy's daddy was living, where I am now living in Sandybanks once, and every morning the children walked up that stoney road to school, and back in the evening.
- What month of the year do the women talk less? = February.
Middy Noddy roundy body three feet, and a wooden hat = A pot.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever, and you'l never guess that = A pipe.
What nation does a criminal dread? = A mouth full.
What is it that has a hundred eyes, and no nose? = A thimble. - Collector
- Máire Ní hAnlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
