School: Léana Mór (roll number 10503)
- Location:
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)15. My hands and face are clean, my belly wants no filling, I work both night and day, and never earn a shilling.
Ans. a clock.
16. I found a little thing, it was neither stick nor stone, belly nor bone, although it had five fingers.
Ans, a glove.17. If all the seas were ink, if all the trees were bread and cheese what would we have to drink.
Ans. the juice of the apple pies.18. A little house on top of the hill, yellow inside, white outside. Ans. an egg.
19. It is here, it is there, it is everywhere, it is down in Castlebar, it takes a bite as big as a horse and never swallows it after.
- Collector
- Kathleen Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Mary Finucane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Michael Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Thomas Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Daniel Finucane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Denis Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
