School: Clochar Muire, Tobar an Choire (roll number 12166)
- Location:
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Nioclás
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- Riddles1) Up chip cherry,
Down chip cherry,
All the men in Derry
Wouldn't climb chip cherry.
(Smoke.)2) In a garden was laid
A beautiful maid
She was as fair as the April morn
The first day of her life
She became a wife
And she died before she was born.
(Eve)3) He went between two woods
And came home between two waters.
(A man carrying two wooden pails of water)4) What is it which goes round the wood
And never enters the wood?
(The bark.)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Davey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo