School: Shannow
- Location:
- Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Ó Ciaráin
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- (continued from previous page)What runs and has no legs
Answer. A tap.What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound.
Answer. A Violen.What goes through the wood and through the wood and leaves a hankerchief on every tree. Answer the snow.
What is full and holds more.
Answer. A pot of potatoes.What is the only thing that can live in a fire. Answer. A live coalWhat bears and never bloosoms
Answer A crookA man went out between two woods and came back between two waters. Answer A man carrying two pails of waterWhat kind of a face should an(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nora Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Redhills, Co. Cavan