School: Doire Clathach (Derryclough), Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 11931)
- Location:
- Derryclogh Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Firbisigh
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- Question -- As white as milk as green as silk as red as rose and as black as ink.
Answer -- A Blackberry.
Question -- As I looked out my fathers window I lost my golden ring I saw the dead carrying away the living wasn't that a curious thing.
Answer -- A Train.
Question -- A little Peggy Neddy Goat in a white petticoat the longer she stands the shorter she grows.
Answer -- A Candle.
Question -- The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
Answer -- A Coffin.
Question -- The poor man has it, the rich man wants it the miser spends it and the spendtrift keeps it.
Answer -- Nothing.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máigréad Ní Chárthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Driminidy South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Bean Ní Cártaig
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Driminidy South, Co. Cork