School: Ros Mór, Béal Átha Fhinghín (roll number 10378)
- Location:
- Rossmore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Michéal Ó Corcora
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- (continued from previous page)my Auntie Mary. She had timber toes and iron nose and I thought she was a fairy. - A plough
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Opens like a barn door, shuts like a trap you may guess a hundred things but you could'nt guess that. - A mouth.
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What goes round the world and round the world and stops at the bed. - Sickness - 1. Hairy all over and rough in the skin, two things shaking, and one going in. - A sow eating food.
2. Up the boreen, and down the boreen, and carries the boreen on his back. - A ladder
3. Who are the lightest Irish-men. - Cork men.
4. Head like a thimble, tail like a rat,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Julia Carey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmeen, Co. Cork