School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 320
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On this page
- (continued from previous page)and not in the food
The letter "K"
There is a man in Ballinamore he's not dead nor he's not alive, But he sells thread
"Knott"
Why do we buy boots?
"Because we could not get them for nothing"
What Mis makes the most mistake?
"Misfortune"
What is it that goes round the wood and never enters it?
"The bark of a tree
Up and down and yet stands still
"The road"
How could you compare a bird to a penny
"Each of them has a head on one side and a tail on the other"
How is a young horse like a new laid egg
"Because he is not already broken"
Who was he who was born before his father died before his mother and was buried beneath his Grandmother?
"Able"
Riddle me rye under my thigh one goes up and the other passes by
"A person knitting"
- Collector
- Mary Alice Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim
