School: Tooreen (St. Brigid's)
- Location:
- Tooreen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhlannagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0112, Page 93
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- Patches upon patches without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a breeches? (a head of cabbage)
What is put on the table often and cut but never eaten? (a pack of cards)
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever and you wouldn't guess that? (a pipe)
Opens like a barn door shuts like a trap, many a thing you'll think of before you'll think of that? (an umbrella)
As black as ink but ink it isn't as white as milk but milk it isn't and it hops on the road like a marble? (a mag-pie)(continues on next page)
