School: Tamhnach Fhuinsineach (roll number 7711)
- Location:
- Tawnyunshinagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Reachtnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 008
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What man always sees
the King seldom sees
what God never sees? Ans His own equal.
How many sticks goes to a crows nest? Ans. There goes none they are all brought. I have a wee cow and she would eat all the hay from here to Donegal give her wind and she will thrive give her water and she will die? Ans a time. What is too short cut a piece off it and it will be long enough? Ans. A grave.
A fiddler in borh had a brother a fifer in Kerry and the fifer in Kerry had no brother atal? Ans. The fiddler in borh was a girl.
What goes around the house and round the house and lies in the corner? Ans. a broomstick. What is four weeks old since Adam was four weeks old and is only four weeks old yet? Ans. the moon. What sort of a character was a man who killed his mother; buried his father and married his sister? Ans. a priest.
What has tongue but cannot speak? Ans a shoe. What goes round the house and round the house and leaves a rag on every bush? Ans. Snow
- Collector
- Agnes Mc Morrow
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lissinagroagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr John Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Lissinagroagh, Co. Leitrim
