School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- Q. Went in between two woods and came out between two waters. A. A girl with pails of water.
Q. Poor little Molly with a long red nose. The longer she lives the shorter she grows.
A. A candle.
- Collector
- Vincent O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- John O Connor
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Q. Black I am and bare they left me.
Men tired and seeking for me.
They broke my back and cut my face
and put me off my dwelling place.
I comforted many tired horses.
A. Turf.Q. Long and tall thin and small.
Wears shoes and has none at all.
A. The road.Q. It is in the rock it's not in the stone,
It is in the marrow but not in bone.
It is in the water but not in the flood.
It's in all kind of timber but not in the wood.
A. The letter "R".Q. When I was young and in my prime.
They took me from my mother's side.
They took me from the marrow too.
They split my tongue to make me speak.
I died in pity and forgotten. Through hand manure heaped for to rot.
A. A goose's quill made into a writing pen.(continues on next page)
