School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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- (continued from previous page)All her children are dead with age.
And she's alive hersel.
Answer. An apple tree.As I was siting on my hunkers.
Looking through my eye winkers.
I saw the dead bury the living.
Answer. Raking the fire.As I was going over Derry wall.
I heard a dead man give a call;
He had a mouth of bone,
A beard of flesh,
And such a man was never born.
Answer. A rooster.What never was, nor never will be,
Look on your hand and you plainly will see.
Answer. Your wee finger will never be as long as the other fingers.- Collector
- Eliza Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathdonnell, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs W. Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Rathdonnell, Co. Donegal