School: Fadhbach, Caisleán na Mainge (roll number 10016)
- Location:
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Tíodhcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0432, Page 410
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- (continued from previous page)The man in the moon.
It is in the rock but not in the stone. It is in the man but not in the bone. It is in church but not in the steeple. It is in the priest but not in the people? - The letter R.
It is red and it is yellow and it is parable green, the king could not reach it neither the queen? - A rainbow.
I have a house and a mouse could not sit in it and all the men in Kerry could not count all the windows in it? A thimble.
What has four legs and flies? Two birds.
It flies high it lies low wears sheos and have none? A football.
What steps can never be climbed? A footstep.
What runs but never walks? A tap.
Why is a drawn tooth like something forgotten? Because it is gone out of your head.
I have a little girl she is tied to the ditch and when you would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Sighle Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs D. Foely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Cahillane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
