School: Sraith, Magh Sheasta
- Location:
- Sragh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Gormáin
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- There was a maid of Adam's race,
She was fair as the flowers of the morning,
She became a wife the first hour of her life,
And she died before she was born>
EveI have but one eye and that without sight,
I am useful wherever I go,
I am sharp without wits, without opinions,
I am bright and I doubt but I am useful to you?
A needle
Why does a man with one eye see more than a man with two eyes?
Because the man with one eye can see the man's two eyes and the man with two eyes can only see the blind man's one eye. When it is young it had four pegs, when it is middle aged it has two legs, and when it is old it has three legs? A manIt is black and it is white and it hops on the road like hailstone? A magpie. Why does the chimney smoke?
Because it cannot chew.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Néill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sragh, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Micheál Ó Néill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Sragh, Co. Clare
