School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 332
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- (continued from previous page)heart did quake the tree did shake to see the whole the fox did make.
A= A girl going to meet her false lover.
R (8) As I sat on my hemy jimmy jamum I saw pinkam stealing away companion I swore & if I had my ransom scamson scarum I’d shoot pinkam for stealing away companion.
A = A fox stealing a goose.
R (9) What keeps one eye always open.
A A Needle
R (10) Black and white and read all over.
A = A paper.
R (11) It’s in the dale’s, it’s in the vale’s, it’s in the valley’s too, although it’s not in Ireland its in a horses shoe.
A = S
R (12) The full of a roomfull and you could’nt get a spoonful.
A = Smoke
R (13) I have a little red cow in the byre and I neither can catch her or tie her
A = A flea
R (14) What’s brought to the table, cut and never eaten.
A = A pack of card’s
R (15) London-Derry, Cork and Kerry spell(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Woods
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Woods
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Leitrim
