School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)
- Location:
- Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
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- What has four legs and one foot?
Ans.= A bed.
If you had a fox a goose and a sheaf of oats and you wanted to bring them across a river one at a time how would you do it?
Ans.= You would bring the goose first and then the fox and then you would bring down the goose again and bring up the sheafe of oats and then the goose.
Where was Moses when the light was out.
Ans.= In the dark.
A house full a room and could not catch a bowl full.
Ans.= Smoke.
The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never seen it.
Ans.= A coffin
Twenty four white horses tied in a stall, the red one came and licked them all.
Ans.= your teeth and your tongue.
- Collector
- Austin Newell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caheradine, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Newell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Caheradine, Co. Galway
