School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)seven for a tale that never was told.
Eight to hoist yourself high in the sky
And nine to die".
The person the swing then sits still and swings back and forth like a pendulum until the rope comes to rest.
- I got a lot of broke china. I called them "chaineys". They represented delph. I swept a spot clean beside a bank. I then put four sticks standing in the ground to represent the four corners of the house. On the middle of the clean place I put a flat stone and covered it with a piece of white paper to represent a table.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lil Ní Dhubhghaill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
