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School: Currakyle, Feakle

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Corrakyle, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Bean Uí Innseadúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 289

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    Here I gase faar off I use a black bird's nest on a holly tree.It can fight the wolfe and fight the bear and conquer all the birds in the air.Hunger.
    What goes up when the rain comes down.
    Umbrellas
    A fine day in the middle of the night two dead men went out to fight two blind men looked on two cripples went to the police and two fools shouted hurry on.A bag of lies.
    As black as ink aswhite as milk it hops on the ground like hailstone .A Magpie.
    Out of a room-full you could not take a spoon -full.You could not take a spoon-full of smoke out of a room-full.
    Two legs hanging four legs banging and four legs lying in a press.A man riding on a mare and she carrying a foal.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Pearl Turkenna
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Turkenagh Mountain, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Patrick Pearl Turkenna
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    69
    Address
    Turkenagh Mountain, Co. Clare