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School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

Location:
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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Riddles

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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Collector
Thomas Nagle
Gender
male
Address
Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary
Informant
Mrs Nagle
Relation
parent
Gender
female
Age
51
Address
Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary
Language
English

Riddles

What is half the moon like
the other half.

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