School: Dearg Dún (roll number 10894)
- Location:
- Dergvone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Lochlainn
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- What goes from house to house and never goes into a house ?
A pass or path.
What stands outside and eats inside ?
A cow eating out of a tub.
I have a wee sow, And she is tied to the wall, And she eats all the hay, From here to Donegal, The fire burning turf, A word of five letters has only one left when two are taken away.
The word stone.
What goes through the wood and never hits the wood ?
A knife in a man's pocket.
How many steps in Icup's ladder ?
One and all the rest.
Tink, Tink, I go through the water and can not get a drink. What am I ?
A nail in a horse's shoe.
As I went out in a dirty gap,
I met my uncle Dan, I cut off his head,
drank his blood and left him(continues on next page)- Collector
- Fred Forbes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coollegreane, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Mary Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dergvone, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Michael J. Gilmartin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dergvone, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Nora Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coollegreane, Co. Leitrim