School: Réidh Ghlas (roll number 14853)
- Location:
- Cnoc Ard Treighe, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 389
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- The winter nights are very long and people sit by the fire telling stories and singing songs and asking riddles. The country houses are nice in the winter nights while the city people go to pictures and to dances.As round as a marble as deep as a cup all the men in town could not pick it up.A well.
Iron nose, Iron toes, a timber head and a hammer.A gun.
A hard working father, a lazy old mother twelve young children all the same colour.A clock.
Under fire over fire and never touches fire.A cake in an oven
Two ladies dressed in white got the flue and died lastTwo candles burnt out.
A flock of white sheep in a red hill here they go there they go and now they stand stillTeeth in your gums.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cnoc Ard Treighe, Co. Chiarraí
