School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- Q. What fish pleases a good wife best
A. Herring
Q. What is full and holds more after
A. A pot full of potatoes and it holds water after
Q. A live in front dead in the middle and bal?zed behind
A. A man ploughing
Q. It opens like a barn door it shuts like a trap your sure to think of twenty thinks before you think of that
A. An umbrella
Q. What tree is nearest to the sea
A. The beech
Q. How is it that a clock cant strike thirteen
A. Because it has not the face to do so
Q. Under the fire and uver the fire and never touches the fire
A. A cake in an oven
Q. In the would I found it I sat down and fought it and against my will I brought it
A. A thorn in your foot
Q. What is noisier than a pig
A. Two pigs
Q. Why does a cow look over the ditch(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lowtown Kilcashel, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Kieran Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lowtown Kilcashel, Co. Roscommon
