School: Doire Gualann (roll number 14979)
- Location:
- Derrygoolin North, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Tórpaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0329
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- (continued from previous page)(9) Kitty inside the ditch kitty outside the ditch if you go near Kitty she'll bite your.
Answer = A nettle
(10) Patch upon patch without any stitch riddle me that and I'll buy you a breeches.
(11) Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four.
Answer = A woman milking a cow
(12) As I went over the garden wall I met a man who gave a call he had a beard of flesh and a mouth of horn such a man was never born.
Answer = A cock
(13) As I looked out my Geago window I lost my Geago ring I saw the dead carrying the live was'nt that a wonderful thing.
Answer = A bicycle.
- Collector
- Greta Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrygoolin South, Co. Galway
