School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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- (continued from previous page)Q:- As round as an apple, as sharp as a lance, if you were on top of it would bring you to France
Ans:- The Moon.Q. What is it that is cut on the table and never eaten
Ans:- A pack of cards.Q:- Through the wood, through the wood, and their heads down
Ans- Nails in a mans boot.Q. Through the wood, and through the wood and never touches the wood
Ans = A knife in a mans pocket.Q:- As round as an apple, as deep as a cup All the men in Londonderry wouldn't lift it up
Ans = A well.Q - As I sat on my hunkers, I peeked through my winkers, I saw the dead covering the live.
Ans = Covering the fire at nightQ:- A leap of the ditches, a creap of the thorns, a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns.
Ans = A hare.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Pilib Mac Aonghusa
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr John Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Oghill, Co. Leitrim