School: Baile na Cille (roll number 1320)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Éinrí Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0035
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- A little red thing hangs on the wall. It drinks all it gets and eats nothing at all?
The Lamp.
What is the lightest thing you can carry?
Your name or your mind.
A man built a wall from here to Donegal what height is it?
The height of nonsense.
Long legs little head and no eyes?
Then tongs.
What is the longest thing that wears your shoes?
The road.
What is taken from you before it is given to you?
Your photo.
What is it that is deeper than the sea?
A tailor's thimble.
Black and white and re(a)d all over?
A book.
It is in the car and no good to the car and the car can't go without it?
The knock.
What are they that always walk on their heads?
The nails of your boots.
What man in Dublin wears the biggest(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emily Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuilleen, Co. Galway
