School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 040
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- (continued from previous page)17 What is it that goes from Dublin to Sligo without moving? (The road)
18 It's got in the woods, it rings in the town,
And it earns its master many a pound." (A fiddle)
19 Long legs, short thighs,
Small head, and no eyes." (A tongs)
20 As white as a lily,
As red as a rose,
The longer it lives
The shorter it grows (A candle)
21 What is it that is handsomer and higher when the head is off? (A pillow)
(14–21 collected by Bertie McGarry Garrow, Boyle)
22 If you fell, what you fall against? (Your will)
23 If I were in sun and you were out of it, what about it? (S_i_n)
24 London derry, Cork and Kerry,
spell me that without a "K" (That)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Anne Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheegorey, Co. Roscommon
