School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 277
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- As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Tady. I cut off his head and left his body easy?
(A head of cabbage)
Black and white and “read” all over?
(A Newspaper)
Genny red petty coat, Genny red nose, the longer she lives, the shorter she grows.
(A candle)
A little house and a mouse would not fit in it and all the men in town could not count how many windows in it.
(A thimble)
Long legs crooked thighs a little head and no eyes.
(A tongs)
Collected by: - Máire Ní Nialláin, Roughan
Told by :- Edward Neylon, Roughan (her father)
(52 years)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Nialláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roughan, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Edward Neylon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Roughan, Co. Clare
- I you, went up a hill on a gooses back where would you get down?
(Under her wings)
Why does a hen pick the pot?
(Because she cannot lick it)
A stamp of suet to a tree’s root and not a bone going through it.
(A snail)(continues on next page)
