School: Lisín na hEilte (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Lisín na hEilte, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Choisdealbha
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- XML “Jack the Lantern”
- XML “Riddles”
- XML “The Signs of Rain”
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- Jack was a boy who was not good enough to go to heaven and was not bad enough to go to hell so he set out to journey the world with a Lantern. We often see Jack in the bog at night
- 1) What part of the cows goes out the gap first = her breath
2) What walks with its head downwards = a stud in your boot
3) A fiddler in Dublin had a brother a piper in bork and the piper in bork had no brother in a fiddler in Dublin what had he = He had a sister
4)I have a little house and a mouse would not fit in it all the men in London would not count all the windows in it = a thimble - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Mairín Ní Mhainnín
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John Donelon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69