School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- Q. What is always behind time.
A. The back of a clock.
Q. As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman the other a man.
A. A penney.
Q. What turns without morning.
A. Milk.
Q. I went to the wood for Brusna I neither brought home long sticks nor short sticks but I brought home Brusna
A. A dog.
Q. I know a little house and it wouldn't hold a mouse and it has as many windows as the king's high horse.
A. A thimble.
Q. What walks with it's head down
A. A nail in a man's boot.
Q. How many wells would it take to make a river
A. One if it was big enough.
Q. Riddly riddle randy bow my father gave me seed to sow the seed was black and the ground was white riddly that or I will hit you a skite(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Morton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- W. J. Ferns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
