School: Coppena, Graiguenamanagh (roll number 1152)

Location:
Copanach, Co. Chill Chainnigh
Teacher:
Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 004

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    One night he was going across a field which contained a rath from his own house to O Neill's Ballyogan.

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  2. 1. Old mother sage sitting in her cage and all her children dead with age.
    An apple tree in winter .
    2. The longer it lives the short it grows.
    Lighted Candle.
    3. The man who made it didn't wear it and the man who wore it didn't see it.
    A coffin.
    4. Neither inside nor outside the house does it lie and yet every day surely it I espy.
    A window
    5. It opens like a barn door and sets like a trap and you'd think of fifty things before you'd think of that.
    the mouth
    6. Why does a cow look over a ditch
    because she couldnt look under it.
    7. Riddle me riddle me rantio, my Father gave me some seeds to sow.
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