School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 218
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumcoghill
- XML Page 218
- XML “Weather-Lore”
- XML “Puzzles”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- When the "Lady in the Moon" assumes an upright position - when seen combing her hair fine weather is coming.
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- H. Montgomery
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Why is a hot cake like a chrysalis?
(both will make the butter-fly).3 women went out selling oranges. The first had 19 to sell, the second 29, and the 3rd 49. All three sold them at the same rate, and received the same amount of money.
(Solve)
They sold at 2d per dozen, and a 1d apiece for odd ones.A man was sent to a fair to purchase 100 animals for £100. Some at £5 each, others at £1 each, and the rest at 1/- each.
How many of each could he buy to fulfil the conditions?
Ans. 19 @ 5£
1 @ £1
80 @ 1/-
