School: Druminardly
- Location:
- Drumman Beg, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Cuanáin
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3)
What wears boots but never wears them.
Ans: The RoadGot from: Mr. Hugh Hoare. Mullagh, Ruskey, Dromod (74)1) A lovely, lovely ornament and when it's bought it's never loaned. those who buy it do not use it and those it's bought for cannot refuse it
Ans: A Coffin.
2)
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat. You may guess for ever, but you would not guess that. A Pipe
3)
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup. all the men in Derry could not pull it up
Ans: The moon shining in a well.
4)
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes, Sloper(?) in the middle and off she goes
Ans: A gun
5)
What smells most in a chemist's shop
Ans: The nose
6)
A sheet fall of crumbs and a loaf in the middle
Ans: The moon and the stars
7)
What talks but never walks?
Ans: A GramaphoneGot from: Miss Maggie Hoare. Mullagh, Ruskey, Dromod (26)1)
What goes up a ladder with it's head down?
Ans: A nail in a man's bootGot from: Mr. Hugh Hoare, Mullagh, ruskey, Dromod (74)
- Informant
- Miss Maggie Hoare
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 26
- Address
- Mullaghmacormick, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Hoare
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Mullaghmacormick, Co. Roscommon
