School: Kilnagross (roll number 12317)
- Location:
- Kilnagross, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: John Hunt
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from her dwelling and seldom come home. Ans = A ship.
18. What has eyes but cannot see. Ans = A potatoe.
19. A houseful a roomful and cannot catch a spoonful.
Ans = Smoke.
20. What is brought to the table cut but never eaten. Ans = A pack of cards.
21. Three feet in the air two on the ground. A head of the living and a mouth of the dead. Ans = A pot on a man's head.
22. What eats out of four corners of the wood. Ans = A pig eating out of the four corners of a trough.
23. What makes a pair of boots. Ans = two boots.
24. What man wears the biggest hat. Ans = the man with the biggest head.
25. What has legs but cannot walk. Ans = A table.
26. What is always stirring and never stirs out of its place.
Ans = A pig's tail.
27. When is a door not a door. Ans = When it is a -jar.
28. Why is a drawn tooth like something forgotten. Ans = because it is gone out of your head.
29. What goes up when rain comes down. Ans = An Umbrella.
30. Flies high lights low cuts grass but never mows. Ans = Goose.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Mc Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Annie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Annaghkeenty, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Annie Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Kathleen Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Mary Gaffney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdromarea North, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Monica O Hara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Millpark, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Rose Ann Banaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumgowla, Co. Leitrim