School: Cuilleán
- Location:
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: León P. Mac Eachmharaigh
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- Why does the chicken cross the road? Because she wants to get to the other side. What is more than holes in a riddle? Corners[?].It is out in the night and goes from house to house? A road. It goes about the house and sleeps behind the door? The broom. What occurs in a minute but not in a year? [?]Constantinople is a very big word and if you cannot spell it you are a very big dunce? It
- I was told the following information by my father William Canny age 69 years. He got the knowledge from his father, Michael Canny who died about twenty years ago at the age of 80 years then. Fine weather:- When bottom of the sky is red or the sun red when setting. When the crows are flying high going home in the evening or staying late in the tillage. Some going up straight in the sky. A heavy dew[?] at night. Bad weather:- The stars glittering, the sign of(continues on next page)
