School: Muine Chonnalláin B.
- Location:
- Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Lochnáin
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“A man who had no eyes went out to view the skies...”
(continued from previous page)What is the smallest room in the world. A mushroom.
I went to the wood and I got it, and I came home and I couldn't find it. A thorn in my foot[?].
As I went up sandyhill, sandyhill was creaking, and all the birds of sandyhill were gathered in one acre. A funeral.
As red as blood but blood it is not, as white as snow but snow it is not, as black as soot, but soot it is not. A blackberry.
It goes round the house, and round the house and whistles in the keyhole. The wind.
As I went up the boireen I met my Aunt Nora she had steel toes iron nose and by my word she would frighten the crows. A gun.
I got all those guesses from a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Muldoon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Luke Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom Greavy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thady Muldoon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo