School: Breac-chluain (B.) (roll number 13389)
- Location:
- Brackloon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Casaide
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121, Page 376
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- Round the house around the house and all heads down.
(The nails of your shoes)
What four letters would frighten a thief.
(O-U-G-U)
Pieces and patches without any stitiches if you tell me that I will give my britches.
(A head of Cabbage)
As black as ink and ink it isn't, so white so snow and snow it isn't, it hops on the wall like a marble ball and a marble ball it isn't.
(A Mag-Pie)
What does an old woman say when she looks into her purse.
(O-I-C-U-A-M-T)
I have a little cow and she would eat all the hay and straw in Ireland and if I give her a drink she would die.
(A Fire)
Two young ladies scosed in white the two took the ? and died one night.
(Two Candles)
The biggest rogue in the world in three letters.
(A Fox)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brackloon, Co. Mayo
