School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin

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- (continued from previous page)68. As round as an apple
as plump as a ball,
can climb the Church over
steeple and all.
Answer = the sun69. What goes away above the ground and returns under it?
Answer = a man with sods on his head.70. The bigger, no doubt, the more you take out
Answer = a hole - 69. What goes away above the ground and returns under it?
Answer = a man with sods on his head.
70. The bigger, no doubt, the more you take out
Answer = a hole(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thomas Patrick Tivenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornaglia, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr James Tivenan
- Gender
- Male