School: Killough (roll number 9540)
- Location:
- Killulagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mary Lynch
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 203
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- Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes? A tongs
What is the smallest room in the world? A Mushroom.
Patches on top of patches and no stiches? A head of Cabbage.
Fire in the wood and no smoke? Lightning.
Round the field and its head down? A nail in a mans boot.
How many feet has forty sheep a sheperd and his dog? Two.
The cross of a ship the keil of a plough with a in the middle I'll tell you more name a sweet town between Navan and Fore? Crossakeil.
As black as sut and as white as milk and hops on the road like hailstones? Magpie.
- Collector
- Mary Anne Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Williamstown (Rochford), Co. Westmeath
