School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- (continued from previous page)A. Because it has neither beginning nor end.
Q. What is that is alive in front dead in the middle baptised behind
A. A man ploughing.
Q. What is it that is full and holds more after,
A. A pot of potatoes because it is full of potatoes and it holds more after.
Q. What weight is the moon,
A. Four quarters.
Q. As black as ink and as white as milk and it hops on the road like a marble stone?
A. A magpie.
Q. Why does a crow look over a ditch,
A. Because she cannot look under it.
Q. In the wood I got it, I sat down and fought it and against my will I bought it
A. A thorn in your foot.
Q. As I was going to the fair of toys I met(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patrick Joseph Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
