School: Áth Dúna, Gleann an Phréacháin, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12542)

Location:
Chimneyfield, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Duinnshléibhe
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  1. "I bees picking potatoes every day."
    "I do be at mass every Sunday."
    "Faith I arnt out yet".
    "Are ou going any place to-day".
    "I aint going this evening."
    "O B J I cant go,"
    "Well dar múire I cant."
    "Well father of God and his mother in Heaven".
    "You are a little sheepen".
    "Be the law boys."
    "I cant, buttey"
    "Well glory be to Cork."

    Mary Foley.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Foley
    Gender
    Female
  2. What is that, that all possess and few hold it.
    Your tongue.
    What is this, that a dead man ates, and if a live man ate it, it would kill him.
    Ans: Nothing.
    How many sides to a bucket.
    Ans: Two, inside and outside.
    Two rows of white ones fastened by a ribbon that wipes them all.
    Ans. A cows tongue.
    If I had an uncle and if he had bother
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.