School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 105
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- I went up the little road, and came down the little road and I took the little road on my back?
A ladder.As I went out in the gap of the garden, I saw a thing twisting and turning. It said it would be more afraid of a cock or a hen, than the king and all his men?
A worm.Lost and lost and can't be found, a hole in the middle and hair all around?
A lady's muff.In comes four legs, whipped up one leg, up jumped two legs, knocked down four legs, with three legs?
A dog came in, bit a man; the man picked up a stool and knocked the dogs down.What has the roundest face in the world?
A clock.Twenty sheep went out of a gap, twenty more on top of that - a shepherd and his dog. How many feet was that?
Two feet.Ink ank under the bank, ten drawing four?
A woman milking a cow.Collected by Kate Kilmartin (13), Bracklin, Kilbeggan from Kieran Kilmartin (65) same address, Farmer.
25.11.'37
- Collector
- Kate Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Breaclainn Bheag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Kieran Kilmartin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Breaclainn Bheag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
