School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gort an Bheithe, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 04_029
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- Two n's and two o's and a d put them together and spell them for me London.
What walks with its head down.A nail in a person's shoe.
As sound as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in the world could not pull it up. a well.
Headed like a timble tailed like at rat you may guess for ever but you wont guess that ,A pipe.
What goes round the wood and never gets into the wood .The bark of a tree.Why do you go to bed .Because it will not come to you.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Scailp, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Mrs Fanny Vaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- An Scailp, Co. an Chláir
