School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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- (continued from previous page)Prove that a cat has ten tails? A cat has a tail more than no cat, and no cat has nine tails, therefore a cat has ten tails. Prove that you are dead? You are dead or you are not dead, but you are not dead; therefore you are dead. If a woman is twenty years now what will she be three hundred years time? Dust.
- Collector
- Nicholas Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
