School: Lios Dubh (1) (roll number 14779)
- Location:
- Lisduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Philip Mc Guiness
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- As round as apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man.
Ans: A penny
Out of a roomful you could not take a spoonful.
Ans: Smoke.
Through the woods and through the woods and never touches the woods.
Ans: A knife in a man's pocket.
As I looked in on yonder window
I saw a dreadful thing. I saw the dead covering the live and wasn't that a wonderful thing.
Ans: A fire raked.
I have a little cow and if you tied her to the wall she'd cut all the hay from this to Donegal.
Ans: A fire
Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes.
Ans: A tongs.
As I went up yonder hill I met my uncle Phil long nose needle toes upon my word he'd frighten the crows.
Ans. A snipe.- Collector
- James P. Mc Rann
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnagea, Co. Leitrim