School: Sraith, Magh Sheasta
- Location:
- Sragh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Gormáin
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- (continued from previous page)What is it that walks with its head down?
The nail of your boot.
Why can't you write a letter on your knees?
Because it is on paper you should write it. - Here I stand and far I see an old grey man on a holly tree. He could kill a bull and fight a bear and conquer all the men in Clare? Hunger.
A little wood, a little wire, a little house without a fire? A cage.
Then men's length, ten men's strength and one man could carry it in one hand?
A rope.
What is the highest and the handsomest with the head off? A pillow.
What is it that you often catch but never see? A passing moment.
What is it that is twice in a moment, once in a minute, and never in a hundred years?
The letter "m".
No bottom has the barrel small and yet it is full of living flesh? A tailor's thimble.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cléirigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrivers, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Cáit Ní Chléirigh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Mountrivers, Co. Clare