School: Barnaran, Rathangan (roll number 10454)
- Location:
- Barnaran, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0778, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)There is another field near Lullymore Graveyard called the Infirmary field and it is called that because monks were buried in it in olden times.There is a village called Lullymore about six miles from Rathangan. The meaning of Lullymore is the grazing plain.
- 1. Which is the right end of a sod of turf?
Ans. Ashes.2. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
Ans. Because she cant look under it.3. Two feet under and three overhead the head of the living in the mouth of the death?
Ans. A man with a pot on his head.4. Why does a hen pick a pot?
Ans. Because she cant lick it.5. What is it that is too short and if you take a piece off it it will be long enough?
Ans. A grave.6. When is a clock hungry?
Ans. When its going to eight.7. What is it a white hen can do that a black hen cant?
Ans. The white hen can show a white feather and the black hen(continues on next page) - Collector
- Máire Ní Giolla Phádruig
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Lullymore East, Co. Kildare
