School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 266
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- (continued from previous page)54. The more you take out of it, the bigger 'tis getting.
Ans. A grave.55. As I went up a steeple, I met three Christian people. They were neither men, women, nor children. What were they?.
Ans. A man, a woman, and a child.56. When I got up this morning, I saw a fox taking away a goose. What did I see him with?
Ans. My eyes.57. The men that made it, never wore it, and the man that wore it, never saw it.
Ans. A coffin.58. As I went out before I came in. I saw the living to leave the dead. The tree did shake, but no leaves did fall, and that is my riddle about the hole in the wall.
Ans. A bird's nest in a hole in the wall.59. Riddle me, riddle me ree, I saw them that didn't see me. I saw short to dig a fork (?) fit for men and made for me.
Ans. A grave.(continues on next page)
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“Poweran, under heavy enchantments I place your daughter Nellie, so that I change her into a haymouse, and I will never release her until Feely, gets a steady tailor.”
"Poweran, under heavy enchantments I place your daughter Nellie, so that I change her into a haymouse, and I will never release her until Feely, gets a steady tailor".A threat issued by Ned Kennedy (Feach cuid 11), to his son James called (?) on some occasion, when the latter offended the former. The
