School: Cnoc Crochaire (roll number 4955)
- Location:
- Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Brian Ó hUidhir
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- A white little woman with a red little nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows.
[a Candle]Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you can guess for ever but you will never guess that.
[a Pipe]Patch upon patch without any stitches.
[a head of cabbage]up the boreen down the boreen and carry the boreen on my back.
[a ladder]What walks with their heads down
[Nails in a boot]It is up when its down and down when its up.
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