School: Muine an Mheadha
- Location:
- Monivea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic S. Ó hÓbáin
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- A year of slows is a sorrowful year. A year of haws is a good year.
Better late than ever.
- Collector
- Julia Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
Old Rhymes
“Four hags who are not gap toothed.”
Four hags who are not gap toothed. Four gentlemen who are not yellow. Four cobblers who are not untruthful. That is a dozen which are not in the country.
