School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 204
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- Full of the field of white cows and one big red cow in between them? Your teeth and tongue.
Three men went down the road in a car, two black men and a white one. Two black men ate the white man. What was the number of the car? 281
I went up the road and I got something that I was not looking for? A thorn.
I went up the road in the middle of the day. I got something small lying on the grass. It was not a fish, nor meat, nor blood, nor bone, and I kept it until it was able to walk? A bird.
The most thing that has an eye and not able to see? A potato.
- What poet never was slow? "Swift"
What County in Ireland would remind you of a candle dying? "Wicklow"
I am a house servant, I am very sore, I have only one eye, so let me alone? "A needle"
As round as an apple, as deep as a pail, and never cries out until you catch it by the tail? "A bell".
Round the house, round the house, and all(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eileen Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gilkagh East, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Connolly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gilkagh East, Co. Galway
