School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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- There is only one herb that we use for food ourselves and that is the nettle.
Every spring when the cabbage is scarce we pull the tops of the young nettles and cook them to eat.
There is another herb called the flowerawn which we gather every spring and boil for the pigs when the small potatoes are scarce.- Collector
- Seamus Mac Alainn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- What has a heel a foot and no toes.? Answer A last.
What has a hundred eyes and no nose? Answer A thimble.
A riddle a riddle a farmer's fiddle alive in two ends and dead in the middle? Answer. A man ploughing.
A kitchen full, a room full and you could not catch a spoonfur.? Answer. Smoke.
Ink pink under a bank ten drawing four? A man milking a cow.
What word as five letters take away too and one is left.? Stone.