School: St Columba's, Cloonagh, Granard (roll number 12813)
- Location:
- Cloonagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peter O'Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 320
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“In this part of the parish of Gowna there lived a young girl named Mary Brady who say a banshee.”
(continued from previous page)was heard from the back of the hedge each night until the old man died.
- Riddle, Riddle, Riddle sitting in a puddle with a green gown and a red petticoat?
A Rush.As I went out on yonder gap I met my Uncle Davey I cut of his head Sucked his blood and left him lying easy?
A blackberry.On yonder hill there sits a deer with silver horns She does appear. She is neither fish, flesh, feather or bone and on yonder hill she sits alone?
The Sun.There is a table in my father's garden its neither ash, oak, elm or yew or any timber that ever grew?
A table of ice.What stands in the wood and shakes it all over?
The wind.What stands on one end of a wood and eats out of another?
A pig eating out of a trough.(continues on next page)
