School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Cill Bharrainn, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)Where did Noah hit the first nail?
On the head.
What we see every day, the Queen seldom sees and God never sees?
Our betters.
In the garden was laid a beautiful lady, as ever was shown in the morn. The first day of her life she became a wife, and died before she was born?
Eve.
I have a wee horse and he has an iron throat, as fast as he gallops, he swallows the rope.
A machine.
King of Morroco built a ship, an’ on his ship his daughter sat, an’ I would be killed if I told her name, an’ there is her name said three times.
Ann.
A field full of white sheep and a red wolf in the middle. Your teeth and your tongue.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Miss Mary Daly
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
