School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Cill Bhláin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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- Collector
- Maurice Hannigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Mullach Ard, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Mr M.J. Hannigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 41
- Address
- An Mullach Ard, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Mrs M.J. Hannigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- An Mullach Ard, Co. Luimnigh
- "White and black and read all over" ? = A newspaper.
"How is it that you are my father & that I am not your son"? said the child to the father? = The child was his daughter.
The man who bought it did not use it & the man who used it did not see it? = A coffin.
As black as ink & ink it is not and as white as snow & snow it is not - it hops on the road like hailstones ? = A magpie. - I am at school every day & I never learn anything. I teach little boys & girls how to read & still I cannot read? = A book (reading).
Why is a dog with a lame leg like a "sum"? = Because he puts down three & carries one.(continues on next page)