School: Lisín na hEilte (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Lisheennaheltia, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Choisdealbha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 059
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- Jack was a boy who was not good enough to go to heaven and was not bad enough to go to hell so he set out to journey the world with a Lantern. We often see Jack in the bog at night
- 1) What part of the cows goes out the gap first = her breath
2) What walks with its head downwards = a stud in your boot
3) A fiddler in Dublin had a brother a piper in bork and the piper in bork had no brother in a fiddler in Dublin what had he = He had a sister
4)I have a little house and a mouse would not fit in it all the men in London would not count all the windows in it = a thimble - 1) If you see the soot falling it is a sign of rain
2) If you hear the wind whistling it is a sign of rain
3) If we hear the curlews singing it is a sign of rain also
If we see clouds in the sky on a fine day it is the sign of rain also - Collector
- Mairín Ní Mhainnín
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John Donelon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
