School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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- Riddle. As I walked and a I read
I saw the living flying out of the dead. One went; two stayed. Riddle me that when I am dead.
Answer. A bird had her nest in a dead mans skull.
Riddle. Little red bessy sitting by the wall if you give her meat she would eat it all. If you give her butter she would fly. If you give her water she would die.
Answer. A fire - Collector
- Paul Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountjudkin, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountjudkin, Co. Tipperary
