School: Ballyharry (roll number 11235)
- Location:
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Bríde
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- (continued from previous page)15) Two ladies dressed in white, the both took ill and died that night.
Ans. = Two candles
16) What's under the water and above the water and still never touches it.
Ans. - A duck with an egg
17) What is the hardest thing in the world to do
Ans. = To take hair of a bald-headed man
18) "Wee" Jeanie Hurl she sits in a puddle a little below the well. All her children died but Lily Bullel "hessel"
Ans. = A rush bush
19) As white as milk but milk its not. As green as grass but grass its not. As red as blood but blood its not. As black as ink but ink its not
Ans. = A blackberry
"Blackie" = Blackberry
"Roughy" = Bush
"Gloury" = eyes
"Glamy" = hands(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sorcha Nic Canna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Daniel Mc Cann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal