School: Gleann Iascaigh (roll number 16363)
- Location:
- Bellafarney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- 1. What is it that you cannot pull down the chimney up and you can pull up the chimney down?
(An Umbrella.)
2. Hink," Hank, under the bank ten drawing four.
(A woman milking a cow.)
3. What month do women talk the least?
(February.)
4. A Fire under it and a fire over it and never touches the fire.
(A cake in the oven.)
5. As Round as an apple, deep like a cup,
All the men in Derry wouldn't lift it up.
(A well.)
6. Little thing, little thing, smaller than a mouse,
It has more windows than a king's house.
(A thimble)
7. What is deeper than Hell?
(A tailor's thimble as it has no bottom)
8. As I was going up Corney Hill, Corney Hill was creaking. All the birds in Corney Hill were gathered in an acre.
(A Funeral)
9 Its deep and its damp and its green above the bank and its fit for the Lord and the Lady. (A Grave.)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Collector
- Evelyn Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Collector
- Francis Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Collector
- Henry Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Collector
- Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Bartly Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Michael Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Michael Tiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Pat Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Pat Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo