School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 317
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- 1. A clipper of fences a leaper of hedges a tiny little fellow with a pair of leather horns. = a rabbit.
2. As I went over the bog I met a man riding on a white horse, I asked him where was he going he said he was going to his to his father's funeral that dyed thirty years bebfore he was born. Ans. A man dyeing
clothes.
3. Four sticks standers four balanders two hookeens two crookeens and a whipeen out of that
Ans = A cow.
4. How many cow's tails could reach the sky. Ans = One if it were long enough.
5. Why is a baker like a hungry(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Anne Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowcanada, Co. Mayo
