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School: Béal Átha Conaill (C.)

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Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
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Mary Mulligan
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    As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, all the men in Derry couldn't lift it up.
    A well
    A kitchen full a roomful you couldn't lift a
    spoonful
    Smoke.
    A small thing grew on a tree, One saw it. Five pulled it. Twelve chewed it and one swallowed it.
    An apple.
    As red as blood, as white as snow and as sweet as honey.
    An Apple.
    Twenty four white cows standing in a stall, up comes a red cow and licks them all
    Teeth and tongue.
    What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night.
    The broom.
    What goes round the world and leaves a
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Miss Yeates
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan