School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)
- Location:
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hugh Mc Kee Fleck
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4. A shoemaker makes shoes without leather. He uses fire, water, earth and air, and every customer takes two pair.
Ans, A blacksmith.2. What grows in a wood, and sounds in a town, and earns its master many a pound.
Ans, a Fiddle.
Margaret Doherty. 5th November, 1937
Iskaheen, Muff, C.Donegal.
Material obtained from:-
Sarah Doherty.
Iskaheen, Muff, Co.Donegal.1. As white as milk and milk it isn't,
As green as grass and grass it isn't,
As red as blood and red it isn't,
As black as ink and ink it isn't,
Ans, A Blackberry.
2. What goes up the chimney down and won't come down the chimney up.
Ans. a Umbrella.
Mary Canning. 5th November, 1937.
Sappagh, Muff, Co.Donegal.
Material obtained from:-
William Canning.
Sappagh, Muff, Co.Donegal.
- Collector
- Margaret Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Eskaheen, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Sarah Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Eskaheen, Co. Donegal
- 1. As white as milk and milk it isn't,
As green as grass and grass it isn't,
As red as blood, and blood it isn't,
As black as ink and ink it isn't,
Ans. A Blackberry.
2. What goes up the chimney down and won't come down the chimney up.
Ans. a Umbrella.
