School: Teach Mhic Conaill (roll number 15614)
- Location:
- Taghmaconnell, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Tuathaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0270, Page 046
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- (continued from previous page)guards understood what they were saying they took to their heels, as no doubt they thought the people talking were the Good People who were going to get them and bring them in the fairies. They thought, as everybody will think that they were the "two" whom the "Good People" meant.
The two which the robbers meant were two apples which they lost near the cemetery gate , while they were escaping in.
The guards never went to guard the orchard afterwards, as they were afraid of their lives. Nobody ever knew that the "Good People" were the robbers for long enough afterwards.
- 1. Round body, small skull, always eating and never full.
Answer = A Chimney
2. As white as milk and milk it isn't, as green as grass and grass it isn't, as red as blood and blood it isn't, as black as ink and ink it isn't.
Answer = a Blackberry
3. As I went out the slippery gap, I met a man with a red cap. He was more afraid of the cock and the hen, than the king and all his men.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mollie Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Galvin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knock, Co. Roscommon
