School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0046
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- Under the fire and over the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire? A cake in an oven.
What would make more noise caught in a gate than a pig? Two pigs.
How many shirts could you get out of a yard? That would depend on what yard you would go into.
Which part of you goes out a gap first? Your breath.
Where was Moses when the light was quenched? He was in darkness.
Over gravel I have travelled, On a branch I did stand, I rode on a mare that never foaled and I caffied the bridle in my hand? A train.
If a hen and a half layed an egg an a half in a day and a half, how many eggs would she lay in a week? Seven eggs.
If a herring and a half cost 1 1/2 how many herrings would you get for 1/=? 12.
- Collector
- Belinda Melia
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim More, Co. Galway
- Informant
- James O' Malley
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Leitrim More, Co. Galway
