School: Allenwood

Location:
Allenwood, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 250

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    Old people say Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.

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  2. When children are small people have old rhymes for keeping them used. Some of them are:- Here's where the hen lays, here is where the cock crows, here is when the egg reels down". "Eye winker torn tinker, nose dropper, mouth eater, chin chopper, chin chopper chin".
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