School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 06_016
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- 1. What leads from one house to another and never walks (Ans) A Path.
2.London Derry Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K (Ans) Without
3. Spell spell without an l. (Ans) Without
4. Over gravel I did travel. On an oak tree I did stand. I saw the mare that never foled and I carried the bridle on my hand (Ans) A Spip
5. What is it that is always going and never runs away.
6. What is it that a dead man eats and if a living man eats it he would die. (Ans) Nothing.
7. Patches upon patches without any stitches. (Ans) A head of cabbage.
8. As I went down the boreen, I met
- Collector
- Mary B. Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Killeenmunterlane South, Co. Galway
