School: Cluainín Mór (roll number 1682)
- Location:
- Cooga, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Ss. Ó Murchú Seán Ó Murchú
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- The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
A coffin.
A riddle, a riddle a farmers fiddle, dead in the middle and alive in the two ends.
A plough.
I can see it and you cannot see it, and it is nearer to you than it is to me.
The back of your head.
Headed like a thimble, and tailed like a rat, you can guess forever but you cannot guess that.
A pipe.
As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man.
A penny.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all.
The sun.(continues on next page)