School: Clonmore, Teampoll Mór (roll number 12541)
- Location:
- Cluain Mór, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Allmhain
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- (continued from previous page)Because she can't look under it.
10. As I looked out my gago window I saw the dead carrying the live? The dead train carrying the people.
11. As I went out a slippery gap, I met my uncle Thady. I cut off his head. I drank his blood and left his body easy?
A bottle of stout.
12. Four mollie-anders, four stick standers, two onlookers, two crookers and a fly beater?
A cow.
11. Riddlie, Riddlie, andie,O' my father gave me some seeds to sow, the seeds were black and the ground was white, riddle me that to night?
A sweet cake.
14. What is it that goes up and down but never tips either sky or ground? The handle of a pump.
15. What is it that goes up a ladder with its head down? The nails in boots.
16. What is it that lives by the fire both Winter and Summer and never takes a bit, bite or sup? A tongs
17. Little Mrs. Muddlie sat in the puddlie the longer she lives the shorter she grows? A candle.
18. What is the shyest thing in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Drom Ard Beag, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Michael Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Drom Ard Beag, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Michael Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Drom Ard Beag, Co. Thiobraid Árann
