School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)
- Location:
- An Baile Glas Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- (continued from previous page)A little white man with a little red nose the more you pull him the more he goes.
A cigarette. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I’ll buy you a britches (breeches). A head of cabbage.
Maureen Dooley
Moneen
Ardrahan
Co Galway.
- St Stephen's day 26th 1st 1938
It is the custom in this part of the country that on St Stephen's a number of boys dress up and they get some musical instruments and breeches(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maureen Dooley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Móinín Thoir, Co. na Gaillimhe
