School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- Gransha More, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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- 1. What is it that will go up the chimney down + wont go down the chimney up. An umbrella
2 There was a fiddler in Roslea had a brother a fiddler in Clones but the fiddler in Clones had no brother in Roslea. It was a girl was fiddler in Roslea.
3 As round as an apple as plump as a ball as high as the market house, steeple and all. The Moon
4 Why do ladies have holes in their stockings
To get them on.
5 I washed my hands in water that never rained or ran, I dried them in a towel that was never woven or spun. I washed them in dew and dried them in te sun.
6. Riddle me, riddle me Randy bow,
My father gave me seeds to sow
The seeds were black and the ground was white
Riddle me that and I'll give you a pipe
Pen with ink and paper
7. What ship do all like to avoid
Hardship
8 Londonderry Cork and Kerry spell that without a "k" That.
9 As I went through a guttery gap I met(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerald Mc Coey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullanacloy, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Sara Jones
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghafin, Co. Monaghan
