School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)
- Location:
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Patrick Kelleher
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- 1.
As I went up a slippery gap I met a thing rolled up in a sop, it was all flesh body and bone, and after three weeks it walked alone.
Answer A chicken inside an egg.2.
As I went up a slippery gap I met my auntie Mary, she had timber toes, and an iron nose, and upon my word she frightened the crows.
Answer A gun3.
As I went over Riverstick bridge I saw a black man standing, I took off his cap and drank his blood, and left his body standing.
Answer A bottle of stout.4
What goes around the house, and around the house and stops at the back door.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tom Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Coughlan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female