School: Curratavy
- Location:
- Corratawy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Gallchobhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 131
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- Cé theinn chugam anall fríd an mhónaidh ach Annraoí Iolar rí na mbheann. Beanglan ór ar bharr a bhoise agus sál a choise fríd a ceann. Frg = órd.Useful, useless instrument when it’s bought it is never lent. They that seen it never own it, they that own it never see it. (Coffin)
What goes around the tree and never touches the tree. (The back)
Twenty sheep went out the gap, twenty more followed that, six, seven, ten, eleven, two and three, how much is that. (Ans=five)
If you went up a ladder and fell down, what would you fall against. (Ans: your will)
What goes up the ladder and it’s head down (Ans=Pails in man’s shoe)
Through a rock, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a bag of pepper, through an old horse bone. Riddle me that or let it alone. (Ans= a moth
A woman was out cleaning a churn and a hare ran by. Where did he run. (Ans= he ran past
How many sheep has forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog (Two)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Mc Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Legnagrow, Co. Cavan
