School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 216
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- (continued from previous page)A: Two pigsQ: I have a little Kerry cow, and all the men in Derry would not catch my little Kerry cow
A: A flyQ: What turns without moving
A: Milk turns sourQ: Black within and red without and four corners round about
A: A chimneyQ: I picked up something good to eat, t'was neither fish, flesh nor bone, I kept it till it ran alone
A: An eggQ: A beautiful maid in the garden was laid. She was as fair as the flowers in the morn. Twas the first time in her life she became a wife and she died before she was born
A: EveQ: As I looked out on the window I saw my Aunt Mary. She had an iron nose, and wooden toes and surely she'd frighten the crows.
A: A gunQ: What kind of tables do we cook and eat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Faughnan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
