School: Drummullan (roll number 13829)
- Location:
- Drummullin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)Riddles
What weight is the moon.
Four quarters.
Flies high hops low has shoes but never wears them.
A football.
As I looked in on my grandfather's window I saw the dead covering the life.
The ashes covering the coals.
Ickle ackle on the wall, ickle ackle got a fall and all the kings men would not put Ickle ackle together again.
An egg.
When they are plucking the geese in heaven what do they give us.
Snow.
When the rain comes down what goes up.
Umbrellas.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not pull it up.
A well.
As round as an apple, as flat as a pan a man one side, and a women on the other side.
A penny.
Twenty fine crows on a fence, I fired and shot one how many were left.
No one.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Gormley
- Gender
- Male
