School: Convent of Mercy, Moville (roll number 9278)
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sr. Celestine Clarke
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- (continued from previous page)A. Because she carries a comb.
Q What is the best thing to put in a sweet cake?
A. Your teeth.
Q I have a wee house, and it would not hold a mouse, and there is more windows in it, than in the Queen's Palace.
A A thimble
Q What turns without moving?
A Milk getting sour.
Q What room is it that you cannot enter?
A. A Mushroom.
Kathleen Barr.
Malin Road,
Moville.
These riddles were told by:-
Mrs. M. McGowan,
Carnagawe,
Moville - Folklore
Several miles outside Moville in Co. Donegal there is a little village called Clonmary. In this village there is a church. It was built by Saint Colmcille. On a big stone outside the church the marks of the saint's foot, knee, and two fingers, can still be seen.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Moira O' Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Gonagle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooly, Co. Donegal