School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 402
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- (continued from previous page)house and in the key hole. Answer = the wind
- 1. What brought to the table always cut but never eat? Answer Cards.
2. It went up the boreen it went down the boreen and brought the boreen on its back? Answer A ladder.
3. The full of the field with white calves and one red calf in the middle of them? Answer the teeth and the tongue.
4 It is not blood or meat or a bone but out of blood and meat it grew? Answer A goose's feathers.
5.A big man and a belt on his two sides? Answer A sheaf of oats.
6. A place from house to house and it be's out in the night? Answer A path.
7. What be's stirring and stirring and never stirs out of its place? Answer A pig's tail.
8. A small horse, a brown horse and he would walk Ireland without wetting a shoe? Answer.= A bee.
9. It's in it from the beginning of the world and it does not look old?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Michael Cowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonta, Co. Mayo
