School: Churchtown (Baile an Teampoill) (roll number 1132)
- Location:
- Baile an Teampaill Theas, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0395, Page 040
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- (continued from previous page)As I was going up a slippery gap I met my Uncle David. He had timber toes an iron nose and upon my word he would frighten the crows.
Ans – A gun.As I was going up St Ives I met three men and their wives. Each man had a cat, each cat had a rat. How many were going up to St Ives?
Ans – One. I.As I was going through a field I met a man. I cut off his head and left his body easy.
Ans – A head of cabbage.As I was going up a slippery gap I met my Auntie Daisy. I cut off her head, drew her blood and left her body aisy.
Ans - A head of cabbage.If you were up on a house where would you get down?
Ans – On a duck.What goes away between two woods and comes back between two waters?
Ans – A man bringing water in pails.As round as an apple as plump as a ball, can climb over churches and steeple and all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Curtáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coill Bhaile Lí, Co. Chorcaí
