School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 17_028
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- As black as ink, as white as milk and it hops on the road like hailstone.
A magpie.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you will not guess that.
A pipe.
What goes round the wood, and round the wood but never enters the wood.
The bark of a tree.
Why is a dead ass like a narrow road.
Because he has no breath.
I saw a house and a mouse would not fit in it, all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Ciarsaig
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Termon, Co. Clare
