School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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- (continued from previous page)A hard working father,
A lazy mother and twelve black children, sitting on a white-washed floor.
Answer (A Clock)Queen Imouth she built a shi[.
And in that ship her daughter sits. And I will be blamed for telling her name, and this is three times I have told you. What is her name?As round as an apple.
As flat as a pan.
One side of a woman and the other a man. Answer (A Penny)What is it that is seen in a minute, and twice in a moment, and not once in a thousand years.
Letter M.What dead thing lives in Winter
Dies in Summer, and grows with its root upwards?
Answer:. an Icicle.
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
