School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 527
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- (continued from previous page)a dry day what will he raise on a wet day - his umbrella
The king of Manchester sent to his daughter a bottomless vessel to hold flesh and bones - a ring.
a row of white cows tied to a wall a red thing comes out and licks them all - your teeth and tongue
forty sheep went out a gap. forty more followed that, six and seven, twice eleven; three and two how many is that - five
As round as a marble, as plump as a ball, it climbs over church. Steeple and all the sun.
Where was Moses when he took the first smoke - behind the pipe
where was Moses when the candle went out - in darkness
It grows in the wood, it sounds in the town and earns its master many - a crown and fiddle
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never enters the wood - the bark of a tree
If your uncles sister is not your aunt(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gowlane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- James Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Gowlane, Co. Kerry
