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School: Cromadh (B.) (roll number 9306)

Location:
Croom, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0508, Page 18

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0508, Page 18

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    “This moment a male blackbird with a white feather in his wing...”

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    of the kitchen where I am writing. This is his seventh nesting season here. He is arrived at a remarkable state of tameness, but I gravely fear that his trustingness will be the cause of his undoing, for we have two black cats who are most sanguinary fellows. He has taken a crumb of bread which was thrown [underlined] to him and retired to a higher and safer post on the shed roof to partake of it with a greater sense of security.
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    “I am a cake from Ballybake, I ran away from two old maids...”

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    "I am a cake from Ballybake
    I ran away from two old maids
    From a barnful of threshers
    From a fieldful of scholars
    And from you if I can.
    This rann was sent me from the folklore Commission to enable me to
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir