School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 252
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- (continued from previous page)boiling and no fire under.
Answer = a pot of lime (limekiln).
37. As I went up shiver hill, shiver hill was shaking, and all the birds on shiver hill were gathered in an acre.
Answer = A man threshing oats.
38. Two legs sat down on three legs, with a leg on his knee, in comes four legs, snapped off one leg, up got two legs, pegged three legs after five legs.
Answer = A man came in with a leg of mutton he sat down on a three legged stool. In comes a dog and snapped off the leg of mutton, up got the man and fired the stool(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Toolin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltycreaghtan, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Jane Toolin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltycreaghtan, Co. Roscommon
