School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 350
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“In marble walls as white as snow lined with a skin as soft as silk...”
In marble walls as white as snow lined with a skin as soft as silk. Within a fountain crystal clear, a golden apple doth appear,
No doors there are to this strong hold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
Ans:- An egg
Thirty geese were out on a gap,
Thirty more followed that,
Six and seven twice eleven,
Three and two how much is that
Ans:- Five
I have a cow with her back to the wall and she would eat all the fodder from here to Donegal.
Ans :- A Fire.
Constantinople a very big word and if you are not able to spell “it” you are a very big dunce.
Ans:- It
What is the smallest bridge in the world?
Ans:- The bridge of your nose
Ink, ank under a bank ten drawing four.
Ans:- A woman milking a cow.
Supplied by Pat Corristine, Killadiskert 68years
Written by Brigid Corristine, Killadiskert
- Collector
- Brigid Corristine
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Pat Corristine
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim