School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)
- Location:
- Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Nic Sheáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 321
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- (continued from previous page)A. The bark of a tree.
- Riddle: What goes round the house and round the house and peeps in at every hole?
Answer: The Sun.
R: As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Ireland could not pull it up.
Answer: A well.
R: Blackety whitey went up the hill. Blackety came down and whitey stayed still.
A: A black hen which had laid an egg.
R: A little round and white house and it is full of meat it has no doors or windows to let me in to eat.
A: An egg.
R: What goes away above the ground and returns under it?
A: A man with sods on his head.
R: What walks with its head down?
A: A nail in a horse’s shoe. - Collector
- Ernest Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Hilliard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 39
- Address
- Drumawark, Co. Donegal
