School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- What room can’t you walk into?
(A mushroom)
Why is an umbrella like fat?
(Because it is dripping)
What nation does a criminal dread?
(Condemnation)
What is mostly watched at night?
(The Fire)
Tá rud sa cuimhne agus dhá céad súil air. Cad é?
(Anbhruith)
Collected by: - Tréasa Nic Aodha. Carhunamodra.
Told by: - James Roche (her grandfather)
Carhunamodra
(73 years)
- Collector
- Tréasa Nic Aodha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownamaddra, Co. Clare
- Informant
- James Roche
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Carrownamaddra, Co. Clare
- Mrs Witch, she has one eye and a big long tail that she lets fly and every time she goes over the gap she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap?
(A needle and thread)Collected by: - Nóra Ní Chasadaigh, Ballycashen.
Told by: - Thomas Cassidy, Ballycashen (her father)
(60 years)
