School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)43) What goes round the house in the daytime and sleeps in the corner at night?#- a brush44) What is like half the moon? - the other half.45) What turns without moving?- milk46) As I went out a muddy gap I met my uncle David. I cut off h is head and left his body easy- a head of cabbage47) Hairy all over, rough in the skin, two things shaking and one going in - a pig eating48) What is always eating and never drinking- a fire49) What is always drinking and never eating?- a lamp50) Why does a hen peck a pan?- because she can't lick it51) What part of a cow goes across the road first - her breath52) Why does a cow look over a ditch - because she can't look under it53) Black I am and red I will be. Many a man has injured me. He broke my back and split my face and sent me from my native place- a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhar, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Ballyhar, Co. Kerry