School: Crannach, Inis
- Location:
- Cranny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 036
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- (continued from previous page)living flying from the dead,
Six there were and the seventh one fled,
Riddle me this before I'll be dead?
A. There was a man walking and reading a graveyard and he saw a skull in which there were birds and the seventh one fled.
Q. What tree is found in the calendar?
A. The date tree.
Q. Tis in the river, tis not in the flood, tis in the tree but not in the wood?
A. The letter R.
Q. There is a little man and he's always sitting by the wall; he eats all he can and drinks nothing at all?
A. A fire
Q. What is is that has bark but cannot bite?
A. The bark of a tree.
Q. The man that made it, never wore it, and the man that wore it never saw it?
A. A coffin.
- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Clancy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyduneen, Co. Clare
