School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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- (continued from previous page)What has a tongue and never speaks. Answer. (a boot)Headed like a thimble,
Tailed like a rat,
You may guess for ever,
But you wont guess that.
PipeHumpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty got a great fall,
All the kings' horses, all the kings men
Could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. Answer (an egg).A woman said to her daughter, "Rise up for your daughter's daughter has a young daughter. What relation was the speaker to the new born baby.The master gave me seed to sow. The seed was black and the ground was white. What was it.Patch upon patches, without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches. (A Cabbage Head).(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan