School: Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair (roll number 10731)
- Location:
- Knockcarron, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Dúthaigh
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"Riddle me riddle me randy rye
Two fat cheeks and a black eye"
......the human rectum2
"Tis as black as ink
Tis as white as milk
And it hops on the ground
Like hailstones"
.........a magpie
- Long ago when people washed their feet they first of all took the cock from his roost. (The fowl had their roosts in the dwelling house at that time). The cock's legs were immersed in the tub of water. Their the washing of the feet proceeded. The immersion of the cocks legs was(continues on next page)
