School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 037
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- 1. In a garden there strayed a beautiful maid, fresh and fair like the flowers of the morning, in the first hour of her life she became a wife, yet she died before she was born.
Ans. Eve.
2. Lives in Winter, dies in Summer, and grows with it's roots upwards.
Ans. an icicle.
3. Black and white and read all over.
Ans. a newspaper.
4. As white as milk, as black as ink and (an) hops on the ground like hailstones.
Ans. a magpie.
5. I have a little sister, she lives in the ditch and if you go near her she would give you the itch.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hough
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Hough
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
