School: Árd-achadh (C.) (roll number 14076)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhadagáin
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- Timber toes iron nose upon my word to frighten the crows? A gun
When is it that a clock gets hungry? When it strikes eight.
How many bees in Belfast? One.
A little man standing by the ditch he eats all he gets, but does not drink water. A fire.
It came in on the backs and went out as fine as silk. Turf.
y y u r y y u b I c u r y y for me. 2 + u r 2 + u b I c u r 2 + for me.
I saw many a saw in my life but of all the saw I ever saw I never saw a saw like I saw in Warsaw.
Able was I ere I saw Ella.
- Collector
- Peggy Doody
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs William Doody
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liskilleen (Dickson), Co. Limerick
