School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 19_029
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- 1) Question - As white as milk as black as ink and it hops on the ground like hailstone
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A Magpie.
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As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all
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The sun.
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Over gravel I do travel and on timber I so stand. I rode a mare than never foaled and hold the bridle in my hand
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A ship.
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What goes away above the earth and returns under it.
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A man with sods in his head.
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- Collector
- Brighid Ní hEidinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crughwill, Co. Clare
