School: Coill na Sliabh (roll number 14734)
- Location:
- Kilnaslieve, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gráinne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038, Page 0245
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What walks on its head?
A nail in a shoe.
A houseful a roomful and could not yet a spoonful.
Smoke.
As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb over church steeple and all?
The sun.
It is red and yellow and it is terrible green the king could not touch it or neither the queen?
Rainbow.
I have an old red cow and she sits by the wall
She eats all I give her but drinks nothing at all?
Fire.
A little red Nancy with a little red nose
The longer she stands the quicker(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheál Ó hUigín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graigueachullaire, Co. Galway
