School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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- Black I am and red I will be and many the man has injured me. He broke my skull and split my face and drove me from my native place :- A fire. As round as a marble as flat as a pan the half of a woman and the whole of a man:- A penny Behind the house there is a well and in the well there is a cup and in the cup there is a sup which every one must take:- Death. Little thing, little thing less than a mouse have more windows, than a Kings house:- A thimble. Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire:- A cake in a bastible. As round as a marble as deep as a cup and all the the Kings army could not fill it up :- A strainer. As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the King army could not take it up:- A well. White bird feather less flew from Paradise, pitched upon high walls and made my land landless, took it up [?], eat it up toothless and rod away horseless :- snow.
- Collector
- Lizzie Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lettergorman, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary O Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lettergorman, Co. Cork