School: Offerlane (roll number 13158)
- Location:
- Tigh na Coille, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: Liam de Chléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 280
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- I: As I went out in a gap I met my mother in a red cap red nose timber toes pon my word she would frighten the crows.
Answer; A Gun.
II; Up chip cherry down chip cherry all the men in derry could not climb chip cherry.
Answer; The Sun.
III;What can you hear and can't see.
Answer; The Wind.
IV; Head against tail, tail against ground, riddle me that and I'll give you a pound.
Answer; A women milking a cow.
V; Spell red rogue of Ireland in three letters.
Answer; The fox.
VI: Whats in the ground and not in the sky its in the door and not in the window.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Prescott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cúil Ruáin, Co. Laoise
