School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Susan Mary Irwin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 374
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- 1. As round as an apple, as plat as a pan, the half of a woman, the whole of a man?
-Penny.
2. As high as a wall, as red as blood, as white as milk, as sweet as honey.
- Apple
3. A small thing which grew on a tree, two saw it, five took it, twelve chewed and one swallowed it?
-Apple
4. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, Can climb the church, over steeple and all?
-Sun
5. What is it always walks with its head down?
-A nail in your boot.
6. What goes away between two woods [sic] And comes home between two waters?
-man fetching water in pails [sic]
7. What goes away above the ground and returns under it?
- A man with sods on his head.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female
