School: Gort Sceithe (roll number 13062)

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   93)

   As white as milk and milk it isn't
   As black as soot and soot it isn't
   It hops on the road like a marble stone
   And a marble stone it isn't.

   (A Magpie)

   
   94)

   Droichead ar loch gan mhaide gan cloch

   (leac-oidhre)

   
   95)

   Cé'n taobh de'n chupán a bhfuil an chluas air?

   (An taobh amuigh)

   
   96) Chuaidh caora isteach i mbearnan
   Céad caora eile, an maor 's a mhada
   Cé mhéad cos é sin?

   (Dhá Chois)

   
   97)

   Tháinig sí isteach ar dhruim na ndaoine
   Agus chuaidh sí amach chomh mín le síoda

   (Móin)

   
   98)

   Cé mhéad gob a bhuaileas cearc ar an urlár nuair tá sí óg ithe deich ngráinne coirce?

   (Aon ghob amháin)

   
   99)

   Two feet underneath and three overhead
   The head of the living and the mouth of the dead

   (A man carrying a pot in his head)

   
   100)

   When a boy falls into a river what is the first thing that happens him?

   (To get wet)

   
   101)

   Around a mill there is a walk and in that walk there is a key.

   (Millwalkey)

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   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Tomás Ó Cléirigh

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Sceach na Gaoithe, Co. Mhaigh Eo