School: Baile Uí Argáin, Cill Moicheallóg (roll number 7237)
- Location:
- Ballyorgan, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: A. Ó Hódhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 048
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- Did you ever see a pig's head with two eyes?
Yes with my own two eyes.
Tis red and tis yellow and 'tis sparkling green the king cannot catch it not more than the queen?
A rainbow.
What goes to mass on their heads? The nails of my boots.
Two little children dressed in white one got the fever and died last night? Two candles.
What is it the more you take from it the larger it gets?
A grave.
In the Kil there was a mal in the mal there was a lock and no key could open it.
Kilmallock.
'Tis black as ink, as white as milk, and it hops on the road like hailstones.
A magpie.
Ink ank under a back ten drawing four? A woman milking a cow.
White bird featherless flew from paradise and perched on the high castle wall?
Snowflakes.
Hoddy doddy with a round black body and a big flat hat what is that? A pot.
- Informant
- Mrs T. Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Ballyorgan, Co. Limerick
