School: Cruimghlinn (roll number 15967)
- Location:
- Cromghlinn, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Conchobhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0093, Page 93
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cruimghlinn
- XML Page 93
- XML “Guesses”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The following are some of the guesses got from the old people of this district.
(1) pieces and patches without any stitches, if you tell me that. I will give you my breeches.
Answer. A head of cabbage,
(2) Its deep and its dark, and its green above the bank, and its fit for a lord or a lady.
Answer, A grave,
(3) As I went up Sandy-hill. Sandy-hill was shaking, and all the birds in Sandy-hill was gathered in an acre.
Answer. A funeral.
(4) The King of Morocedy [?] built a ship, Ann in his ship his daughter sat. ann I be blamed to tell her name. ann that's three times I have told it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Faulkner
- Address
- Cromghlinn, Co. Mhaigh Eo
