School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gort na Léime, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Liam Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Q. If Tom's father was John's son, what would Tom be to John.
A. His Grandson.
Q. What is that, Which lines in Winter dies in Summer and grows with its roots upwards
A. an icicle
Q. What county could you fit in a bottle.
A. Cork
Q. Eights corners in a room a cat in each corner seven cats before a cat and a cat sitting on each cats tail. How many were there
A. Eight cats
Q. As I went into a field I met my uncle James, I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body empty.
A. A bottle of whiskey
Q. I went up in the boreen and down the boreen and I carried the boreen on my back.
A. a ladder
Q. Over the fire and under the fire and never touches the fire
A. a cake in an ovenKathleen Mannion 10 yrs
Gurteen bown
Dunmore Co Galway
Obtained information from:-
Patrick Mannion (same address)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- An Goirtín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Patrick Mannion
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Goirtín, Co. na Gaillimhe
