School: Corlea
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 008
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- (continued from previous page)As round as an apple as steep as a pail it always cries out when its pulled by the tail?
A bell
Why does a chimney smoke?
Because he can't chew
In the garden of Eden their dwelt a fair maiden as fresh as a rose in the morning she as a bride the first day of her life and died before she as born?
Eve
What city would fit in a bottle?
Cork
England, Ireland, France and Spain. Mixed together in a shower of rain, Put in a bag, tied with a string
Riddle me that and I'll give you a ring?
A pudding
As black as ink, as white as milk and hops on the road like hailstones?
A magpie
A leaper of ditches, a skipper of thorns a little brown cow with a leather(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Essie White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Carolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
