School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 406
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- One very fine day in Summer, two men were saving hay in Mr. Dowling's field.
One of them said to the other that they would go to swim in the lower lake.
So they went down, and got in, but they swam over a swallow hole, and they caught each other, and both of them sunk down.
The guards we searching for them, for two days, but they were never found.
- Collector
- Antoine Ó hÉidhín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- When was beef the highest.?=When the cow leaped over the moon.
What has four legs, and only one foot.? =A bed.
If a fellow met a fellow in a garden of beans, said a fellow, to a fellow, what a fellow means, how many f's in that.?=None
A riddle, a riddle, a farmer's fiddle alive in two ends, and dead in the middle.?= A man ploughing.
A woman was cleaning a window, and five people passed what time was it.?=
Five (passed) past one.
