School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 10_008
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- As green as grass and grass it isint as red as blood and blood it isint as black as ink and ink it isint?
A blackberry.
As I went into a garden of wheat I got a thing that any man could eat and in three weeks and in three weeks it walked alone?
An egg and a chicken came out of it.
Four legs up and four legs down soft in the middle and hard all round.
A bed.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dodie Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creeharmore, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr John Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creeharmore, Co. Roscommon
