School: An Gleann Garbh (roll number 2379)
- Location:
- Glengarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caoimhín Ó Séaghdha
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- 1. As black as silk and as white as milk, and it hops on the ground like hailstone.
A magpie.2. Thirty two white horses.
Upon a red hill.
They are galloping, galloping.
And now they are still.
Our teeth3. As round as a basin
As deep as a cup.
And all the wells on earth
Would not fill it up.
A strainer.4 Tis red and 'tis yellow.
Tis blue and 'tis brown.
Tis high in the middle,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Criostóir Ó Súilleabhán
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Reenmeen West, Co. Cork
