School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)
- Location:
- Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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- I have a great goose, she is a great prize
The man that will buy her will want to be wise,
She has feet in her body and walks on none, Takes up her lodgings and seldom comes home.
Fr. A ship.Two feet underneath and three overhead The mouth of the living and the head of the dead.
Fr. A pit and a man's head.What is it that is too short and if you cut a piece off it, it will be long enough.
Fr. A grave.As I looked ever yonder wall,
I saw an old man and loud he called,
His mouth was made of bone,
His teeth were made of horn
And sorra such an old man,
Ever was born.
Fr. A cock crowing
