School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 138
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- 1. The three fourths of a bird, and the half of her nest, would spell a large town in the Isle of the West:
Larne
2. What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every place:
The letter "E"
3. In a garden was placed a beautiful maid before the sun shone in the morning she was made wife the first day of her life and she died before she was born:
Eve
4. It is in the marrow and not in the bone, it is in the bolster and not in the bed, it is in the brain and not in the head:
The letter "R"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crosná, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Paddy Leyland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 20
- Address
- Crosná, Co. Ros Comáin
