School: Cill Daighnéain
- Location:
- Ráth Chormaic, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bhuachalla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 356
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- As black as ink as white as milk and hops in the road like hail-stone. = A magpie
Black and white and read all over. = a news-paper
As round as a marble as deep as a pan, one side a woman and another side a man.= A penny
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you could not guess that. = A pipe
What is it that is full and holds more. = a pot of potatoes when you put water in
What is thrown up white and comes down yellow. = An egg.
As round as a marble as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all. = The sun.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Biddy Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Móinín an tSamhraidh, Co. Chorcaí
