School: Ballydurrow
- Location:
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hadarnáin
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- (continued from previous page)came along and licked them all
(your tongue and teeth)
(36) A long legged father, a fat belly mother and three little children all round. (A Pot)
(37) The cross of a plough that ploughs up the green
The keel of a ship that never was seen
With "a" in the middle without any more
Tell me a village between Navan and Fore?
(Crossakiel or Crossakeel)
(38) Sixty sheep went out on a gap
Sixty more followed that
The shepherd and his dog
How many feet was that?
(Two)
(39) As I went out on yonder gap I met my uncle Davy
I took off his cap and sucked his blood
And left him lying easy.
(A blackberry)
(40) As round as an apple; a plump as a ball
it climbs over the church steeple and all.
(The Sun)
(41) How many wells would make a river?
(One if it were big enough)
(42) Over the water and under the water and never touches the water?
(A hen with an egg)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hetherton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
