School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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- (continued from previous page)Why does a cow go over the hill Because she can't go under it.What goes around the house, and round the house, and peeps in every window.The sun. A leaper of ditches, a cropper of corn, a tight little fellow with two leather thorns.A rabbitWhat goes through the country, round the town, and up the chimneys with its head down.A nail in a Sweeper's foot.What county in Ireland can your put into a bottle.Cork
- Think hank under bank, few drowning pour.Milking a cow. One windy night I saw a sight, The dead burying the living.Caking a fire with dead ashes over live coals. Patch upon patch without any stitches, Riddle me that and I'll give you my breeches.A cabbage head.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Louis Irwin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Elliott
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Moneenlom, Co. Leitrim