School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)

Location:
Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 377

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    shoe to the car in which the married people is in. It is right to break the wedding cake on the brides head. Straw boys goes round to the houses looking for drink. It is said that the bride should wear something old something new something borrowed and something blue.
    Teller: Mrs. Power
    Flaskagh
    Dunmore
    Writer: Bridie Power
    Same Place
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Folklore
    15-7-'38
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood
    The trunk of a tree.
    As round as an apple as plump as a cup and all in Ireland could'nt put it up. The sun shining in a well.
    What always walks with its head down.
    A nail in your boot.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Shally
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Shally
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Flaskagh More, Co. Galway