School: Gleann Iascaigh (roll number 16363)
- Location:
- Bellafarney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)17 Who is the shoemaker that makes shoes without leather,
All the four elements put together,
Fire, water, earth and air,
And every customer takes two pairs.
(A Blacksmith)
18. I went to the wood and I got it,
I sat down and I looked for it,
I brought it home because I couldn't get it.
(A thorn in my foot.)
19 In a garden was laid a fair maid on a bright dewy morn,
On the first day of her life she became a man's wife, and she died before she was born.
(Eve.)
20 As old as Adam and still alive,
Four weeks old and never saw five.
(The Moon.)
21. As I was going to London I saw a great wonder.
Four and twenty wild-oats tearing the ground asunder.
(A Farmer harrowing)
22. How many feet has forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog.
(Two)(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