School: Dennmore
- Location:
- Dennmore or Legganden, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Harriet Heaslip
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0977, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)I went to the wood for Brussne I neither brought ash oak fir or beach but I brought home brussne
- A dog (whose name was Brussane)
As round as an apple as deep as a cup, all the men in Ireland could not pull it up.
- A well.
A hard working man a little lazy woman and twelve little children eating round a pan.
- clock-face.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you can guess for ever but you could not guess that.
-a pipe.
When walking through a field of wheat I picked up some thing good to eat it was neither fish fowl nor bone and I kept till it ran alone.- an egg
What goes from Dublin without stopping.
- the road.
What always looks at you with a puss.
- Fire crook.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Winnie Turner
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glencorran, Co. Cavan
