School: Ball Áluinn (Balla) (roll number 1146)
- Location:
- Balla, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolanaigh
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It's deep and it's damp and it's wet on the bank and its fit for the lord of the lady. Turf.
Aunty Naughty built a ship an' on that ship her daughter lay. An' I'd be blamed to tell her name. An' thats three times I've told it _ anne.
I know a man with a long tail. He goes in and out the gap 40 times a day. Each time he leaves a bit of his tail after him. Needle & Thread.
It flies high, hops low, wears shoes and has none _ A football.
Under fire, over fire and never -tough- touches fire. A cake in a pot-oven.
A cake with all the crumbs around it (moon & starts)
Four legs up and four legs down: soft in the middle and hard all round - (a bed)
As I went up the boreen I met my uncle Tony
He had an iron and steel Toes and upon my word he'd frighten the crows _ (a gun)
As I went up the boreen I carried the boreen on my back _ (a ladder)
It's as black as ink and ink it isn't
It's as white as milk and milk it isn't
It hops on the road like a marble stone
And a marble stone it isn't (A magpie)
Na trí rudaí is luaithe san bfairrge _ rath rón agus ronnach(continues on next page)- Collector
- P. Ó Maolanaigh
- Gender
- Male