School: Corlea
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 007
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- Riddles What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night?
A broom
why does a hen pick a pot?
Because she cannot lick it
As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all
The sun
The man that made it never wore it the man who wore it never saw it?
A coffin
Forty sheep went out on yonder gap, forty more with that six, seven, ten, eleven. Three and two how many is that?
Five sheep
What is that which goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
The bark of a tree
Where was Moses when the light went out ?
In the dark(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Essie White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Carolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
