School: N. Breandáin, Cathair na Mart

Location:
Westport, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádhraic A. Ó Módhráin
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  1. Formed long ago, yet made today. I’m most in use while others sleep. What few would like to give away and yet what no one would like to keep.
    Answer: Bed.
    It’s in the rock and it isn’t in the stone. It’s in the marrow and it isn’t in the bone. It’s in the church and it isn’t in the steeple. It’s in the minister and it isn’t in the people.
    Answer: ‘R’
    Pray ladies tell me if you can who is that highly favoured man? Although he married many a wife he still lives single all his life.
    Answer: Priest.
    The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. The beginning of every end
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