School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 128
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- An old rhyme said before meals is:
"Honour and glory to us.
Three slices between four of us.
Thank God there are no more of us.
God bless the meal"(after)
Thanks be to God and His Holy Mother
For that good meal till I get another.
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“Ireland was Ireland when England was a pup and Ireland will be Ireland when England is done up,”
Ireland was Ireland when England was a pup and
Ireland will be Ireland when England is done up. - A man had a dream that there was a pot of gold hidden under a bridge. He went to the place and met a man who told him he dreamt there was money buried between two apple trees in an orchard and that he would meet the man who owned...(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Ward
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Allenwood Middle, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mrs Julia Ward
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Allenwood Middle, Co. Kildare
