School: Tír na Néill (roll number 3845)
- Location:
- Tirnaneill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Mc Cague
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 072
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- A strip of red, a strip of green, the king couldn't guess, neither could the queen, they sent for wise men out of the east, he said it had horns, but it was not a best, what was it. A twig of holly.
What is always behind time?
The back of a clock.
Patch upon patch without any stiches?
A cabbage head.
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into it.
The bark of a tree.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you can guess for ever but you can't guess that. A pipe.
Spell black bird in four letters. Crow
Spell back water in three letters. Ink.
Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters. Fox
What goes from house to house and sleeps outside at night. The road.
What has one eye and cannot see.
A needle.
What has teeth and cannot eat.
A comb.
Black and white when up the hill(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Crozier Moffett
- Gender
- Male
