School: Castleterra
- Location:
- Castleterra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Ciosóig
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Written by Ben Smyth Ballinacargy Drung
Collected from Walter Higgens Drung CavanWhat is it that opens like a barden? door shuts like a trap manyes the thing you will think of before you think of that.?
How many sticks goes to the building of a crows nest? None goes, they are all carried.
What does between two woods and comes back between two waters? A man with two buckets of water.
How many buckets of earth and clay are there in the sperrin mountains?
Why is a donkey's tail like a new born baby? Because it was never seen before.
What is full and can hold more? A pot of potatoes.
What is covered with holes and can hold water? a sponge.
what is it that that sleeps with it's finger in its eye? The crook.
What goes up the stairs with its head down? A nail in a boot.
What grows with its root up ? A cows tail.
What goes through the water and never touches it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ben Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellanacargy, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Walter Higgens
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drung, Co. Cavan
