School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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- What goes up when the rain comes down :- A Umbrella
Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire :- A cake in a bastible. > Around the house and around the house and stops at the backdoor :- A brush. What is it that you feel and you can't see :- The heat of the fire. Why dose a cow look over the ditch :- Because she could not look under it. What is it that has two hands and never washes its face :- A clock. What is it that grows longer the more you take from it :- A hole. What is it that walks with its head downwards :- A nail in a shoe.
How many cows tails would reach the sky :- One if it were long enough. Behind the house there is a well and in the well there is a cup and in the cup there is a sup which every one taste :- Death.- Collector
- Julia Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- There was a man who had no eyes, and he went out to view the skies. He saw a tree with apples on. He took no apples off and he left no apples on: He had one eye and he saw a tree with two apples on. He took one apple off and he left(continues on next page)