School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 333
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- (continued from previous page)never rotted in its grave. It is supposed from the time of the Holy Family every donkey has a cross on its back, and there was never any up to that. The old people say that when Our Lord was born the birds sang round the house in the middle of the night.
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“Once when Brian Boru was in bed tired after warring with the North men, was he was looking up he say a spider.....”
Once when Brian Boru was in bed tired after warring with the North men, was he was looking up he say a spider making a web. It made five attempts to get from one rafter to another and the sixth time it got across. Brian got up out of(continues on next page)