School: Gráig na Gréine (roll number 12819)
- Location:
- Graignagreana, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Anna Ní Shiocfhradha
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- (continued from previous page)iron with a tail of wool.
A thick needle with a woollen stitch. - Old Mother Twitcher had but one eye, and along tail which she lets fly. And every time she goes over a gap, she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap.
A needle and thread.
How many sticks go to the building of a crow's nest.
None they are all carried.
A riddle, a riddle as I suppose a hundred eyes and never a nose.
A thimble.
Wide in the bottom and narrow in the top a stick in the middle(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Shéaghdha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossderry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Máighread Ní Shéaghdha
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bealdarrig, Co. Kerry