School: Cill Chiaráin

Location:
Kilkerrin, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Caitlín, Bean Uí Chuimín
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  1. Who had no mother and was a mother?
    Answer - Eve.
    When the garden was laid came a handsome young maid as fair and as fresh as the morn. She became a wife the first hour of her life and died before she was born.
    Answer - Eve.
    The man that made it never wore it.
    The man that wore it never saw it.
    Answer - A coffin.
    What has a head and cannot find a hat to fit it? - Bray Head.
    If a farmer raises thirty acres of hay in dry weather what will he raise in the wet weather.
    His umbrella.
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