School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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- RiddlesCollected from children attending Drumloughan School, and written in this book 18.11.19371) As I was going through yonder gap,
i met my uncle Savey
I cut off his head and sucked his blood,
and left him lying easy.
Ans.: A Blackberry2) Up chip chop cherry, down chip chop cherry;
All the men in Derry wouldn't climb Chip Chop Cherry.
Ans.: Smoke3) What goes over the water, and under the water, and never touches the water.
Ans.: An egg in a duck.4) What goes up the ladder with its head down.
Ans.: A nail in a man's shoe.5) I have a little house, and it wouldn't hold a mouse;
And there's more windows in it than the Lord Mayor's house.
Ans.: a thimble.(continues on next page)- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male