School: Laragh
- Location:
- Laragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Riain
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- (continued from previous page)"Twenty-four white cows tied in a stall,
Up comes the red bull and jumps through them all?
Answer - Teeth and tongue.
There was a man of Adam's race,
He had a certain dwelling place,
He wasn't in Heaven, or yet in Hell,
Or any place a man could dwell.
Where was he?
Answer - Jonas in the whale's belly. What is it that has only one head and one foot? A bed.
- Once upon a time there was a woman named Gargan who lived in castle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bennie Curtis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corraweelis, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Michael Curtis
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Corraweelis, Co. Cavan
