School: Caimthír (Camphire), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15129)
- Location:
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Bean Uí Chradóig
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 294
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- 'Tis under the water, 'tis over the water and yet it never touches the water.
The sun or moon.
What's like one half of the moon?
The other half.
As white as milk, as black as silk and hopping on the road like a hailstone.
A magpie.
'Tis black and white and 'red' all over.
The newspaper.
How is Ireland like a bottle of wine?
There is a Cork in it.
I know a little house and a mouse wouldn't fit in it, and all men in the town couldn't count all the windows in it.
A thimble.
Ink, ank, under the bank, ten drawing four.
A woman milking a cow.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Whelan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mícheál Ó Domhnaill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 20
- Occupation
- Oibrí
- Address
- Tourin, Co. Waterford
