School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)
- Location:
- Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Mac Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)As white as milk and milk it isn't, as green as grass and grass it isn't, as red as blood and blood it isn't, as black as ink and ink it isn't and it grows on bushes?
A blackberry
- As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all.
The sun.
What goes away between two woods, and comes home between two water.
A man fetching water in pails.
Why is a coblers shop like hell.
Because there are bad soles in a coblers shop and bad souls in Hell.
I have a cow and she is lying by the wall, And give her much or little and she will eat it all.
A fire.
Three pots boiling and no fire under them
Three springs wells - Collector
- Ina Mc Crann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Miss O' Keefe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyleague, Co. Roscommon
