School: Cill Mhuire, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 13942)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0624, Page 549
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- (continued from previous page)my face I never wet?
A clock.
12. Black and white and red all over?
A newspaper.
13. There was a little house and a mouse would not fit in it, all the men in Ireland could not count all the windows in it?
A thimble.
14. Flies high, lies low, wears shoes and has none?
A football.15. Under gravel I do travel, over board I do stand, I rode a mare that never foaled and carried the bridle in my hand?
A ship.
16. Twenty sick sheep went out a gap, one died and how many were left?
Three.
17. As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Daisy. I cut off his head and left his body aisy?
A head of cabbage.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Margaret Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Austin Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Quilty, Co. Clare
