School: Drummullan (roll number 13829)
- Location:
- Drummullin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Oirealla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 309
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- Riddles
A little brown cow with a leather pair of horns, she is a lepper of ditches and a cropper of thorns.
A hare.
It grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns its master a many a pound.
A fiddle.
Mother twitchel has but one eye and a long tail and every time she goes out on the gap, she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap.
A needle and thread.
Long legs, short thighs, small head and no eyes.
A tongs.
Black and white and red all over.
A newspaper.
What walks with their heads down.
Nails in your boot.
Round the wood, and never touches the wood.
Bark of the trees.
Up chip-cherry and down chip-cherry and all the men in Derry wouldn't climb chip cherry.
Smoke.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Gormley
- Gender
- Male
