School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Cill Bhláin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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- If a farmer "raised" ten acres of wheat in dry weather, what would he "raise" in wet weather? = His umbrella.As I was going through a field of wheat, I met a thing that you could eat. It was neither flesh, fish, feather nor bone & after a time it walked home? = A nest of eggs.As black as ink, as white as milk & it hops on the road like hailstone = A magpie.It went upstairs black & white & it came down-stairs read all over? = A newspaper.
- Collector
- James Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Áth an Mhuilinn, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- George Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Áth an Mhuilinn, Co. Chorcaí
- What goes round the table, is always cut but never eaten? = A pack of cards.As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, the head of a woman & the whole of a man? = A penny.
- Collector
- John Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Áth an Mhuilinn, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr James Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Áth an Mhuilinn, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs James Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Áth an Mhuilinn, Co. Chorcaí
- "Hoddy , doddy.
With a round, black body
And a big, flat hat". = A pot.A flock of white sheep on a red hill -
Here they go, there they go,
Now they stand still. - - = Teeth.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Matthew O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cúil na nGabhar, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr John D. O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Cúil na nGabhar, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs John D. O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cúil na nGabhar, Co. Chorcaí