School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Baile Thomáis, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 329
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- (continued from previous page)If an Irish man had a peacock and if he laid an egg in an English man's field, which of them would own the egg.
A peacock lays no eggs
- What has a neck and a body and nothing else
A bottle
What is a lay always looking for and never hopes to find
A hole in her stocking
Whey does a hen cross the road
To go to the other side - Collector
- Josie O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Fhiacal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs O' Dwyer
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Cill Fhiacal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- As I went out a garden gap I met Dick with a red cap a stick in his hand a stone in this throat riddle me that and I will give you a groat - a cherry
If a tongs and poker cost sixpence what would a ton of coal amount to - ashes
As I went up a hill I saw the world's wonder, twenety-four bull dogs tearing the hill asunder(continues on next page) - Collector
- Ned Bargary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Fhiacal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs Bargary
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Cill Fhiacal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
