School: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí (roll number 15467)
- Location:
- Glenties, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mac Duibhir
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- (continued from previous page)1. What is it that can turn without moving? (Ans. Milk)2. I have a wee cow, she sits by the wall, she would eat all the fother from here to Donegal. (Ans. The Fire)3. I have a wee cow with an iron throat, the harder she gallops she swallows the rope. (Ans. a spinning wheel)4. What is in the church is not in the steeple, what is in the priest is not in the people, what is in the quarry is not in the stone and what is in the marrow is not in the bone. (Ans. the letter "R")5. I have two pigs and they are tied to one sty, one lyes wet(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Padruig Mac Daibhid
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnamucklagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Rose Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female