School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)a fiddler also but the fiddler in Cork had no brother a fiddler in Limerick.
A. The fiddler in Limerick was a sister of the fiddler in Fork.
Q. I went to pictures to-morrow night: I took the found seal at the back and I feel from the top of the pit of the gallery and broke the front-bone in my back.
A. A lie
Q. Black and white went up the ladder white stayed above and black came down.
A. A hen laying an egg
Q. What is the strongest day in the week
A. Sunday because all the rest are "week"days
Q. When is a trunk like two letters in the alphabet
A When it is "m" "t"
Q. If I (i) was in the sun and you (u) out of the sun what would sun become
A. sin
Q. As I walked out and as I walked in. I saw the dead outside and the life within. Six there were and the seventh he went
A. A returns nest with in a dead horses skull rise there were means six young [?] and seventh is the mother
Q. Twenty six(sick) sheep went out a gap 2 died how many returned
A. eighteen May Burke
- Collector
- May Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownagur, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Burke
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killuney, Co. Galway
