School: Mc Kelvey's Grove (roll number 9130)
- Location:
- Loughbrattoge, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Eva Campbell
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over church, hill, steeple and all?
The sun.What goes up the road with its head down?
A nail in a man's boot.Black and white went up the hill black came down and white stood still?
A black hen went up and laid a white egg.Chip chip charley all the men in Darley could not climb up chip chip charley?
Smoke.There are two pigs, they lie quite still, when they get meat, they roar and cry and when they get none they lie quite still?
The millwheel.What sits in a stone wall but is neither outside or inside?
A window.What can a black hen do which a white hen cannot do?
A black hen can lay a white egg and a white hen cannot lay a black egg.As round as an apple, as deep as a cup and all the king's horses could not put it up?
A well.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Ross
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Doocharn, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mina Dickson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughbrattoge, Co. Monaghan
