School: Cillín
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 506
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- Forty sheep went out a gap and forty sheep went after how many feet had forty sheep a shepherd and his dog.
Two feet.
As I went in the garden gate I met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and I left his body easy.
A Head of cabbage.
I went up and down the boreen and I carried the boreen on my back.
A ladder
The Queen of Morocco sent to Queen Anne for a bottomless vessel to put blood and flesh in.
A ring
I know a little man hanging on the wall, he drinks all he gets and he eats none at all.
A lamp
I know a little man with a red nose, The longer he stands the shorter he grows.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Children of Killeen School
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyny, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Pat Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Peter Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockaun, Co. Mayo
