School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)

Location:
Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 098

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    in the gap first?
    Her breath.
    There was a little house and a mouse couldn't fit in it, and all the men in the town couldn't count the windows in it?
    A timble.
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  2. The Queen of Morocca she sent to the king a bottomless tub to put flesh and blood in?
    A ring.
    I went to the wood for a load of timber. I got neither straight or crooked timber and still I got a load of timber?
    A load of sawdust.
    What is the differance between a tree and an aeroplane?
    A tree sheds leaves and the aeroplane leaves sheds.
    What was the first plant that Adam planted in the garden of
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Bergin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Byrne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny