School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 243
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- Told to her by her Grandmother Mrs Sharpe Bonabeg. 80 years of age.What has a bed but never lies on it.
The river.There's a town in Ireland, spell it backwards and forwards it is always the same.
Navan.
What's full and holds the full of itself again
A pot full of potatoes filled with water.
What's found in the wood and sounds in the town, and earns its master many a pound
A fiddle.
What stands outside the wood and eats inside it.
A cow eating out of a tub.A kitchen full, a room full
You couldn't catch a spoonful.
Smoke.
What goes through the wood and through the wood, and never touches the wood.
A knife in a man's pocket.
What are tearing each other in day time and sleeping together at night.
Cards for carding wool.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence Sharpe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Sharpe
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
