School: Killashandra (C.) Convent
- Location:
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. M. Cornillius
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- Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran tell me how r's in that and you will be a clever man?
Answer None
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a cat you could guess for ever and never guess that?
Answer A pipe.
A little wood a little wire a little house without a fire?
Answer A bird's cage.
I wash my hands in water that never did rain or run and I dried them in a (never) towel that never was wrung or spun?
Answer I wash them in the dew and I dried them in the sun.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Ellen O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynacross, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- People around Derrynacross