School: Ráth na Loch (C.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 17000)
- Location:
- Ranalough, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 066
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- (continued from previous page)a cup, and all the men in kerry could'nt pull it up.
Ans. A spring well.
(5) I washed my hands in water that was never rained to run and I wiped them in a towel that was never woven or spun.
Ans I washed them in dew and I dried them in the sun.
- (1) 'Tis said, tis white, tis sparable green all the Kings cannot get at it nor either the Queen.
Ans. A rainbow.
(2) I have an aunt and my aunt has a sister and she is not my aunt.
Ans; She is my mother.
(3) A fiddler in Kerry had a brother a fiddler in Cork, the fiddler in Cork had no brother a fiddler in Kerry.
Ans. She was his sister.
(4) A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat, if your were guessing forever you will never guess that.
Ans. A pipe.
(5) Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Kerrisk
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Edmund Kerrisk
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killeentierna, Co. Kerry
