School: Sraith, Magh Sheasta
- Location:
- Sragh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Gormáin
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- What is no good until it is broken? An egg.
I have a little Kerry cow, she is as good as any cow, she sits in the corner with one horn?
A kettleFour dilly danders
Two sticky standers,
Four nookers, two tuckers,
And a wig wag wig?
A goat. Chip chip cherry
All the men in Kerry
Would not catch chip chip cherry?
Smoke.
- Collector
- Tomás Mac Craith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrivers, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Seán Mac Craith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Mountrivers, Co. Clare
- 'Tis white and red and "sparible" green,
The king cannot get at it no more than the queen?
A rainbow.
Over water and under water, and can't touch the water? A woman going over a bridge with a bucket of water on her head.
I have a white horse and a red house and
You must break the white to go into the red house? An egg.
