School: Lisacul (B.) (roll number 13047)
- Location:
- Lisacul, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Liam Forde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 081
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- (continued from previous page)town in England. Their birthday was in September one of them became a priest and married his mother and the other died unmarried.
Around the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood.
The bark of a tree
Around the house and round the house and all heads down.
The nails of your boots
Patches upon patches without any stitches. Riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of britches.
A head of cabbage
When is a shoe like a dying person.
When his sole leaves his body.
Why is a bar made hot.
To bend
As I went down to London
I saw a great wonder three pots boiling and no fire under.
Roach lime
What fly does the blacksmith make.
The fire fly
- Collector
- Patrick Duignan
- Gender
- Male
