School: Ceann Dáimh (roll number 16173)
- Location:
- Kinaff, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Mac Cathmhaoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 9
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- (continued from previous page)9. A clipper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little grey heifer without any horns? A hare.
10. What is as crooked as the river? Its banks.
11. What is that which grows larger the more you take from it?
A Bog hole.
12. It is over the fire and it is under the fire and never touches the fire?
A cake in the oven.
13. What is the last thing a person does before he goes to bed?
Take your feet off the ground.
14. It is blue and red and emerald green the king could not reach it or neither the queen? The Rainbow.
15. It opens like a barn door it shuts like trap you would think of a many a thing before would think of that? An umbrella.
- Collector
- Elizabeth Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlag, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlag, Co. Mayo
