School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 314a
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- 1. Its cut in the wood; it sounds in the town; it earns its master and many a pound. A fiddle.2. Why does a cow look over a ditch? Because she cannot look under it.3. As white as milk, it is not milk, as green as grass, it is not grass, as red as blood, it is not blood, as black as ink, it is not ink. A blackberry.4. Under the fire and over the fire never touches the fire. A cake in an oven.5. What is it that leads to every man's house and sleeps out? A path.6. Why is the policeman worse than the devil? The policeman brings body and soul; the devil wants only the soul.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dympna Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Acres, Co. Roscommon
- Collector
- Maureen Kivlehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carkfree, Co. Roscommon
- Collector
- Patty Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Collector
- Thérèse Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockglass, Co. Roscommon
