School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 12_050
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- Black and white and its read all over
A Newspaper
What goes from Dublin to Cork without moving
A railway
It is red and its green and its yellow between. They sent for a man to the West and it was as far from him as all the rest.
A rainbow
What goes around the house and round the house and in the key-hole
A sunbeam.
Twenty sheep went out the gap, twenty more followed that, the shepherd and his dog. How many feet went out the gap.
Two feet
- Collector
- Eileen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
