School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)
- Location:
- Abbey, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séan de Paor
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- 1. It shuts like a barn door, opens like a trap, you may guess for ever but you would never guess that.
An umbrella.
2. What is it always walks with its head down.
A nail in your boot.
3. A creel of turf at 2d a sod, how much did it all come to. Ashes.
4. If a fellow met a fellow in a field of beans, can a fellow tell a fellow what a fellow means how many f's in "that".
None.
5. Two little hands with a face so bright, one to the left and the other to the right.
A clock.- Collector
- Annie Joynt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Conicar, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Joynt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Conicar, Co. Galway