School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 024
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- (continued from previous page)What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets in to the wood .
The bark of a tree.
Riddle me , riddle me , what is that over the head and under the hat .
The hair of your head.
As I was going up the hill I met my uncle Bill , short toes , long nose . God knows it would frighten the crows .
A gun .
What is half the moon like ?
Like the other half.
It's deep and it's damp and it's there beside the bank and it's fit for the landlord and his lady .
A grave .
The man that bought it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it .
A coffin.
As I was going round the house I looked in the window and I saw the dead burying the living .
Raking the fire.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Noone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowcloghagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr John Noone
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Carrowcloghagh, Co. Mayo
