School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 447
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- Question = What's smaller thatn a midges mouth
Answer = What goes into it
Q = What's the first thing you do when you go to bed
Ans = Toss the clothes.
Q = Two dead me fighting, two blind men looking on, two cripples running for the police, and two dummies shouting "Hurry On"
Ans = A lie
Q = Big bellied mother, small legged mother, three children, and them all like other.
Ans A pot and pot hooks.
Q. Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes.
Ans = A tongs.
Q = Up Clip Cherry, down clip cherry, all the men in Londonderry wouldn't climb Clip cherry.
Ans = The Smoke
Q. A flock of red sheep on a red hill. Home they go, there they go, and never stand still
Ans = A set of teeth in a cow.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pilib Mac Aonghusa
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr John Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Oghill, Co. Leitrim
