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School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)

Location:
Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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  2. Local Travellers

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    Long ago there was a local traveller called Stephen Deary he used to go from house to house looking for food and when he would get food in one house he would go to the other and eat more, and when it would get dark he would go to the nearest house to him and sleep in it that night
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Higgins
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Informant
    James Colreavy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50

  3. Riddles

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    1. Patches upon patches without any stitches, riddle me that and Ill you a pair of breeches, Ans head of cabbage
    2. The half of a moon and the whole of a hill its a dear little spot in old Ireland still. Ans Mohill
    3. I have a little house and it
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