School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 359
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- A little white round house and it is full of meat, but has no doors or windows to let me in to eat
Ans - an egg.
As I was walking up the hill, I met my uncle Daisy. I cut off his head and drank is blood and ledt him "sitting easy."
Ans. A bottle of whiskey.
Why does a chimney smoke.
Ans. Because it cannot chew.
As I was walking up the hill I met a man with a bundle of rods and no one could count them but the hand of God.
Ans. The hair of your head.
What is the lightest county in Ireland.
Ans. Cork.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan, one side oman and the other a man.
Ans. A penny.
What runs from Dublin to Belfast and never moves.
Ans. The road.
I have a cow with her back to the wall and she'd eat all the fodder from here to Donegal.
Ans - A fire
Two mm two rr two aa and g put that together and spell it for me. Ans = grammar.
- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Pat Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Greyfield, Co. Leitrim
