School: Loughill, Longford
- Location:
- Laughil, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Ó Corcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 304
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- (continued from previous page)A Worm
What is always behind time.
The back of the clock.
Why is Ireland like a bottle?
because it has a cork in the end of it.
What is it that you have seen ans you will never see again?
Yesterday
What is in the middle of Ireland?
The letter L.
Look at your hand, and you will plainly see what never was, nor never will be.
One finger longer than the other.
Why does a hen cross the road?
To get to the other side.
A leaper of ditches, a cropper of thorns, a little brown cow without any horns.
A hare.
Riddle me riddle me rookeen, how many potatoes goes to a Drúirín 3
- Collector
- Kevin Doherty
- Gender
- Male
