School: Cromadh (B.) (roll number 9306)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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“Once upon a time there lived a wee wee woman and a wee wee man...”
(continued from previous page)wee woman and a wee wee man.
A woman and she bittling in a can.
A pigeon in a pan.
A ditchful of beggars.
A barnful of threshers.
A huntsman and his hounds.
And from you if I can"."Well you won't go from me", said the little boy, giving the cake a blow of his stick, and knocking it down and eating it _______.Miss Finnerty had this story from her mother, and from an old woman named Jude Regan who in her old days was nursemaid to the Finnerty children.Mrs Toomey (72) Draper, Croom, is not able to recall the words, but remembers the telling of the tale. She also says she thinks a "A goose and a gander, a duck and a drake" came into it
- Informant
- Jude Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Retired nursemaid
- Informant
- Miss Finnerty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 59
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Croom, Co. Limerick