School: Porturlan
- Location:
- Porturlan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Tiernan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 341
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- RiddlesAs round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all.
The Sun.What is it that walks with its head down.
A nail in a man's boot. Blacky and whitey went up the hill blacky came down and whitey stood still.
A hen after dropping an egg. What is it that goes around the house and leaves a loaf in every window.
The snow. What is it that sits in the corner with its finger in his eye.
The crook. A man in a wilderness asked of me how manyred strawberries grew in the sea. I made him answer as fast as I could as many red herrings grew in the wood. The King of Moroco points out a long thing it is neither a fool, nor a foolish thing but many a dark hole it ever was in.
A Pen. Forty sheep went through a wood, forty four came after that three and two how may is it.
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- Collector
- Nora Mc Aweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Killywillin, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr James Mc Aweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killywillin, Co. Cavan
