School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)point in the matter is that quite shortly before that, a little baby daughter - Nellie - of diminutive size, had been born to 'Powercen', and near the latter lived a master-tailor, who was famous for the 'mad' journeymen, whom he used to engage. (Wm. Corkery). The expression is typical of the seanchaidhe and of the sean-scéal (D.O.B.)
In amhdheoin an tsean-draoi, do mhair Neillí Bheag agus tá sí pósta go sona i Sean-Gharcain. [?]Riddles.60. As I was going up the hill, I met a man and he making his will.
He had rules, he had rings, he had several pretty things.
He had a cat o'nine tails, he had a hammer for striking nails.
Up Tom, down Jack, blow the bellows my old man..
Uncle Dick is very sick, and Molly in the corner.
Ans. A blacksmith.61. Lady Bame sat in a chair, like an old hen.
All her children died of old age, but she is alive still.
Ans. An apple-tree.62. Up the hill of wonders, down the hill of thunders. Twenty-four blackbirds tearing the hill asunder.
Ans. A harrow.(continues on next page)
