School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 242
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- 1. As black as ink as white as milk and it hops on the fields like hailstones.
A Magpie.2. Black and white and red all over.
A Newspaper.3. I had a little house and a mouse could not fit in it?
Thimble.4. What time would it be when an ass would have three quarters of a mangle eaten?
Quarter to eat.5. Twenty sick sheep went out a gap, one died and how many came back?
Nineteen.6. What part of a cow goes out the gap first?
Her breath.7. What is full in the day and empty at night?
Your shoes.8. What is cut on a table and never eaten?
A pack of cards.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie O' Connell
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Martin Bolger
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
