School: Tobar Pádraig (roll number 4764)
- Location:
- Tobar Phádraig, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Anraoi Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 194
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- (Fuair Seán an paidir seo ó'n athair Mícheál O Riain)
MÍNIÚ Is ceart é rádh ist oidhche) SEÁN Ó RIAIN
bhfuil tú do chodhladh a mháthair
Nílim a ghrádh gheal
As na dearna a lair cáll deabha ba (?) a lámha aige
A Dhritháir taol cut neáchan Tighearna
O's fíor san a mháthair ní in aon eathaigh a neas plóir-se (?)
Trí h-uaire ar luighe leaba shúil de
Ná go beidh a ainm ar mo yash láimh go dtí lá an brátha."
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"A Dhómhnaill Uí Chonaill an dtuigeann tú Gaedheala
Tuigim a chailín, céard is léir duit?
Athruigh do chupán is chuiris í tae dhuit""Go deimhin a chailín tabharta mé spré dhuit."
(Fuair SÉAN é sin o chailín i gCreach Mhaoil, Co na Gaillimhe sa bhliain 1901)
- some wheat in a saucepan. She then left to beg in other houses, but did not return. When St. Martin returned he found that the wheat had grown in the boiling water. This he saw was a sign of the anger of God. He threw himself into a mill. The mill stopped. Since then all mills are not worked on St. Martin's Day.(continues on next page)
