School: Templeglantine (B.) (roll number 2359)
- Location:
- Templeglentan, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Maitiú Ó Duilleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 071
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- What never was or never will be?
A mouse's nest in a cats ear.
When was beef the highest?
When the cow jumper over the moon.
I went to the wood for it, I got it, I sat down and looked for it, I could not find it, I brought it home and looked for it, I found it.
A thorn in my foot.
I went into a field, in that field there was a house, in that house there was a press, in that press there was a shelf, on that shelf there was a cup, in that cup there was a sup that everyone must taste.
Death.
It grows round the wood and round the wood but never grows into the wood.
the bark of a tree.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séumus Ó Laodhcha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
