School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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- (continued from previous page)6. full of honey
- 7. At the Creation every flower got a name and one little flower forgot it name and it looked up to Heaven and the Lord looked down and said forget-me-not.
- 8. Elder berries it is said was found where Jesus was Crusified and the blood fell on them.
9. Bitter sweet hangs down in head and when you break off its stem it bleeds like blood - Informant
- Mrs Cochrane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- 10. The passion flower is said to have been near the Cross and it has on it the Crown of Thorns & the Cross.
- 11. The Forget-me-not how it got its name, a little girl and boy were beside a river, and the little boy saw a flower at the edge of the river an he went to get it and he slipped in and when he was drowning he said Forget-me-not.
- Thistle when the English were invading Scotland one night the Scottish soldiers were sleeping in a field, when the English soldiers were sneaking in their bare feet near them one man walked on thistles and gave a shout and this wakened the Scottish soldiers, so they said(continues on next page)
