School: Druim Áine (roll number 9438)
- Location:
- Drumany (O'Brien), Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Raghnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0212, Page 304
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- (continued from previous page)five more couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again. Ans:- an egg.What has a head and foot and four legs. Ans:- a bed.Twenty sick sheep went out in a wall, six of them died how many came back.
Ans:- fourteen.If a lion's paw covered half an acre, what would his tail cover. Ans:- a whole acre.As white as milk as black as ink and hopps on the road like healstones. Ans:- (A wagtail) A magRound the house and round house and leaves a loaf in every window. Ans:- the snow.Round the house and round house and drages her puddnes after her.
Ans: a hen with her flock of chickness.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Jeo Greenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muckros, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Lizzie Leyden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrinkip, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Mai Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumroosk South, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Nancie Redican
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumroosk South, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Peter O Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corrabeagh, Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Thomas Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumany (O'Brien), Co. Leitrim
- Collector
- Willie Gill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamanish, Co. Leitrim
