School: Árd-achadh (B.) (roll number 14075)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Anraoi Musgrave
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 005
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- (continued from previous page)6 As I sat on the stool,
To gather my tools,
"You fool, you fool,
Many is the blackhole you went in.
Ans:- A pen and ink
7 As round as an egg as deep as a cup all the men, in Kanturk couldn't take it up.
Ans:- A well.
8 Twenty six sheep went out a gap twenty white and twenty black, six and seven twice eleven three and two how much is that.
Ans: Five.
9 On gravel I do travel
I steel I do stand
I rode a mare that never foled
And held a bridle in my hand.
Ans:- An engine
10 It goes with the car
It comes with the car
And it never does any good to the car.
Ans:- The noise of the axle
11 There is a house on top of the hill and in(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Tim Scanlan
- Gender
- Male
