School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 09_015
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- Spell red nuts and gin in one word
Understanding
As white as milk and milk it isn't as black as coal and coal it isn't, it hops on the road like a marble stone, and a marble stone it is not
A magpie
Hink hank under the bank, ten drawing four.
A woman milking a cow
Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes.
A tongs
What is it that grows larger the ore you take from it.
A hole.
Round the house and round the house and lies at the back door.
A brush
- Collector
- Michael Lavelle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cordarragh North, Co. Mayo
