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School: Gleann, Meathus Truim (roll number 12136)

Location:
Glen, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 070

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    1. Look in your hand and you will plainly see,
    What never was or ever will be. None of your fingers the same length.
    2. Round the house and round the house and drags the harrow after it.
    A hen and her clutch of chickens.
    3. Up Chipcherry and down Chipcherry,
    And all the men in Derry, Would bot climb Chipcherry.
    Smoke
    4. Rounf=d the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner.
    The besom.
    5. A leaper of ditches a clipper of corn,
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Beirne
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Patrick Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glen, Co. Longford