School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Ciardha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 031
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- 1.
We, we pony, grey and slim with a long white flowing tail on him, a man with a brassy hood driving him through the wood.
Ans. A tailor making a suit of clothes.
2.
Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire
Ans. A cake in a bastible.
3.
As I went up a slippery gap I met my aunty Mary she had timber toes and an Iron nose upon my word she would frighten the crows.
Ans. A gun.
4.
As I was going up to St. Ives, I met seven men and their wives, each wife had a child and each child had a cat how many men were going up to St. Ives.
Ans. One man alone.
5.
In a garden there lived a fair maiden. The fairest that nature, the fairest that nature could form, the first hour of her life she became wife, and she died before she was born.
Ans. This maiden was in the garden of Eden(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clashduff, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Hayes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clashduff, Co. Cork
