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School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 284

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Tomhaiseanna

Why does the sea roar?
(Because there are crabs underneath it)
Over fire and under fire and never touches the fire?
(A loaf of bread baking.)
What is full and holds more?
(A pot full of potatoes when your pour water in.)
How many feet have forty sheep, the shepherd, and his dog?
(Two feet)


Collected by: - Eamonn Ó Riain Crossard
Told by: - George Ryan Crossard (his father)
(55 years)

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Collector
Eamonn Ó Riain
Gender
male
Address
Crossard, Co. Clare
Informant
George Ryan
Relation
parent
Gender
male
Age
55
Address
Crossard, Co. Clare
Language
English

Tomhaiseanna

Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me “that” without a “K”
(That)


Collected by: - Máire Ní h-Allmhuráin, Knockaunrowe.
Told by: - Martin Halloran, Knockaunrowe, (her father)
(56 years)

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Tomhaiseanna

Sicily Sage she lived in a cage, five yards below the well,
her children died with the length of age but herself is living still?
(A haw bush)
As I went out a slippery gap, I met a boy with a red cap a stone in his belly, a stick on

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