School: Baile Uí Mhuinghile (roll number 8284)

Location:
Ballymonally, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Liam Mac Gearailt
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    It warns all good children when the school they should attend: It tells them when their class begins and when their lessons end...

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    = Because she wants to get to the other side.
    10. What never was or never will be put out your hand and you will see. =Your five fingers will never be as long as one another.
    11. As I went into a garden of wheat I met a thing it was neither flesh fish nor meat. It was their alone and in the course of time it would walk itself. An egg.
    12. What never was or never will be. = A mouse's nest in a cat's ear.
    13. Whats deeper than hell. - A tailors thimble.
    14. The more you take from it the bigger it gets - a hole
    15. As I looked over London wall
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Nic Aoidh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Áine Nic Aoidh
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    88
    Address
    Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo