School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 281
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killinaboy
- XML Page 281
- XML “Tomhaiseanna”
- XML “Tomhaiseanna”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- As I went out a slippery gap I saw my uncle Tady he had steel toes and an iron nose and surely he would frighten the crows.
(A gun)
When a cow is going up a hill what goes up first?
(Her breath)
Why is a dog’s tail like the middle of a tree
(Because it is the farthest away from the bark)
From what animal’s mouth does a tale come?
(A man’s)
As black as soot and as round as a ball
(A blackberry)
Collected by: – Sean Pelcington. Lemeneigh.
Told by :– George Pelcington. Lemeneigh, (his father)
(55 years)
- Collector
- Seán Pelcington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamaneh South, Co. Clare
- Informant
- George Pelcington
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Leamaneh South, Co. Clare
- A wee, wee pony gay and slim a long white flowing tail on him and many a man with brassy hood is driving him a through the wood? (A needle, thread, and thimble)
If it took a yard of cloth to make a waist-coat what would it take to make a trousers? (A tailor)
Collected by: - Mícheal Ó Nialláin, Inchiquin
Told by: - Anthony Neylon, Inchiquin, (his father)
(52 years)
