School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 280
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killinaboy
- XML Page 280
- XML “Tomhaiseanna”
- XML “Tomhaiseanna”
- XML “Tomhaiseanna”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - What key is the hardest to turn?
(A donkey)
If a man fell accidentally what would he fall against?
(His will.)
What three things cannot be found?
(A shoe for the foot of a mountain, a towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean.)
Headed like thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you couldnot guess that?
(A pipe) - What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
(A hole)
Collected by: - Pádraig Ó Faoileáin, Lemeneigh
Told by: - (Mrs) Ellen Whelan, Lemeneigh, (his grandmother)
(80 years)
