School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Cill Mochua (roll number 15632)

Location:
Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Sr. M. Calasanctius
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    Freagra - Your feet off the flour.
    What is it that is neither fish flesh feather not bone.
    Freagra - Egg.
    What County in Ireland has six letters in it take off three and leave one.
    Freagra - Tyrone.
    My first is a kind of wine my second is a sticky substance my third is a kind of fish my fourth is a heavy weight put all together and they form a town in Ireland.
    Freagra - Portarlington.
    Smoke in a wood and no fire.
    Freagra - A herd of cattle.
    Elizabeth Betty and Bess went out in the wood to seek a birds nest. They took one with three eggs in it. The took two apiece and left one in it.
    Freagra - Elizabeth Betty and Bess is one girl.
    What is it that has a fair head one eye and a cork heel and a sly go.
    Freagra - Ireland.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Quinlan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Greenville, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Thomas Carroll
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny