School: Coralstown (roll number 1314)
- Location:
- Correllstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Beóláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 048
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- Collected by PupilsRiddlesWhat is it that has its heart in its head.
... A head of cabbage.A lazy old woman, a hard working man,
And twelve little children as black as the pan.
... a clock.First it was white, then it was black,
and then it was red all over.
... a newspaperThere is a thing long and white,
always swimming in the night,
and the longer it sits the shorter it grows,
.... a candle.What is the hardest thing in the world to do ... to put a winkers on a nightmare.John McCann (above addr)
Pupil Mary Carty Coralstown Killucan Flax breaking
About seventy years ago there was a woman named Kitty Brown who lived in this district. She used to go around from house to house in the Autumn time of the year. She used to carry a beetle on her back
- About seventy years ago there was a woman named Kitty Brown who lived in this district. She used to go around from house to house in the Autumn time of the year. She used to carry a beetle on her back(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Garty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Correllstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Mc Cann
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Porterstown (Napper), Co. Westmeath
