School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Burren, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Mongaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089, Page 246
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- It is brought to the table and cut but never eaten.
(A pack of cards)Which side of a cow is the hairiest
(The outside)A round soda cake and a sheet full of crumbs.
(The moon and the stars)What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen.
(It is tine to mend it)When the well-een will dry the wo[?] in will die.
(A lamp)It is neither in nor out but it is under the roof.
(The Window.)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- M. Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- M. Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
