School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 461
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“There was a man who had a cow on the points of calving.”
(continued from previous page)were under the ruins of a house near the river bank. The man went to where she said and rooted under the stones and found the bones. When he had found them, there was the calf which had been lost and he standing beside him. When he went home his cow had calved safely. The woman was his friend.
(C. Sheedy 13 ón a athair)
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“A dog or a horse which occurs in your dream is a sign of a friend.”
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My back is broke and my belly is thin,
And I wear my guts outside my skin.
Ans. A fiddle. (R. O Domhnaill)The kitchenful and the room-ful
and you cannot catch a spoonful
Ans. Smoke (R.O.D).All over, like the fair of Glinn [Tiob. ??.]
All over, like the fair of Drummen (Croom)
Sayings heard in the places indicated, to convey the final overthrow of an individual or an undertakinmg.