School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)
- Location:
- Doire Liatháin, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 376
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- Four little brothers both long and thin, when one is out the other is in.
Knitting-needles
As I went up Tawley Hill, Tawley Hill was shaking and all the birds on Tawley Hill would cover half an acre.
A man sowing oats.
As I went through a garden of wheat,
I picked up something that I could eat,
It was neither flesh, fish, blood not bone,
I kept it and it walked alone.
An egg
I washed my hands in water,
It was neither running nor spring,
I dried them with a towel which was neither woven nor spun.
The dew and the sun
As I went out the slipper gap, I met a man with a red cap. He feared the cock and hen more than the king and all his men.
A worm
I have a little man above in the field, and when I pull his leg his nose will bleed.
A pump
Twenty-four white cows tied in a stall,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Nic Ghiolla Mhártain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Droim Fada, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Brigid Mc Garraghy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ráth Phráisce, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Maura Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coill Chadaí, Co. Shligigh
