School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)it? A Bald Head.
It never was nor never will be look in your hand and you will plainly see?
Your thumb is not as long as the other fingers.
What wears its guts outside of its skin?
A Fiddle.
The cross of the plough that ploughs up the lee, the keel of the ship that goes through the sea. A in the middle without any more. Tell me the town between Navan and Fore?
Cross-a-Keel.
How many wells would make a river?
One, if it was big enough.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the king's horses would not pull it up?
A Well.
What goes up when the rain comes down?
An umbrella.
What is full and holds more?
A pot full of potatoes and it holds water.
What goes around the floor all day and sleeps in the corner all night?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Informant
- Margaret Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Nicholas Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
