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School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 327

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    kittens. How many were going to St. Ives altogether. One.
    I saw a ship on the ocean and it was full of people yet there was not a single person in it. They were all married.
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    It goes round the wood and never enters it.
    The bark.
    What can be shut and open at the same time. The gates at a level crossing on a railway.
    What is it that when you write it you divide it and that when you divide it you unite it.
    A scissors.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Nagle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Nagle
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    51
    Address
    Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary