School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 43
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- (continued from previous page)The king of Morocco he built a ship, an in that ship his daughter sat, an I'm not bound to tell her name, an thats' three times I've told it yet (Ann)
Silk or satin, wood and wire, a little house without a fire (an humbrella)Steel toes and iron nose and pon my word he'd frighten the crows (a gun)I walk up the boreen and down the boreen and I carry the boreen on my back (A ladder)Constantinople is a very hard word to spell and if you cannot spell it your'e a dunce (it)
On what side of the jug is the handle?
(On the outside)
What sign is it to hear a corncrake screaching?
(It's a sign that you aren't deaf)How many nibs does a hen leave on the ground while she is eating? (one)
The rich man wants it. The poor man sees it. The blind man sees it and the deaf man hears it
(nothing)
- Collector
- Ellen Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
