School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Caiseal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0555, Page 292
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- Middy Noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat
Answer - A pot
Headed like a thimble tail like a rat you may guess for ever but you would never guess that
Answer - A pipe
Around the wood around the wood but never goes into the wood
Answer - A fence
Twenty four white bullocks fighting in a hall one big red one comes up and mixes in them all
Answer = Your tongue and teeth
As I went out a slippery gap I met a man with a small red hat. He had iron heels and timber nose and upon my word he would frighten the crows.
Answer = A gun
- Collector
- Patrick Cashin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caiseal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs Cashin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caiseal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
