School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- (continued from previous page)and a teacher?
A. One minds the train and the other trains the mind
R. What is it has one leg one eye and no body?
A. A neddle.
R. Four bottles without corks hanging up side down under a hill and yet they will not spill?
A. A Cow's dug.
R. Name a stare with a (tale) tail
A. Micky Mouse.
R. Nelly inside the ditch Nelly outside the ditch, if you touch Nelly she will burn you
A. A nettle.
- R. Four white bottles on a hill turned down but never spill.
A. A cow's tits.
R. As I looked out through by bed room window I left my Gold ring fall I saw the dead burying the live, wasn't that a lovely thing.
A. A ship sinking.
R. As black as ink and yet not ink, as white as milk and yet not milk and it can hop on the road like a hail stone?(continues on next page) - Informant
- James Lonergan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
