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School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)

Location:
Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 060

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    1. What is the longest word in the English language?
    Smiles
    2. How many feet have fifty sheep, a shepherd and his dog?
    Two
    3. What is it that goes from London to York and never moves?
    The road
    4. What goes in dry and comes out wet?
    Tea
    5. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over church, over steeple and all?
    The sun
    6. I have a little red cow, she eats all I give her but drinks none at all?
    A fire
    7. Through the wood and through the wood and never touches the wood?
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Brigid Fitzmaurice
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mr Peter Fitxmaurice
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon