School: Court (roll number 13335)
- Location:
- Courtballyedmond, Co. Wexford
- Teachers: Criostóir Ó Cuanáin Liam de Noraidh
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- Nov 15th, 1937. Riddles.Spell red rogue with three letters? Fox.
Spell Blackwater with three letters? Ink.A hardworking father, a lazy old mother, twelve little children and all the same colour? A clock.I know a thing it's all covered with sleet, it walks in the sea without any feet? A ship.As I went out in a gutter gap, I met my Uncle Davy. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying easy. What is that? A bottle of stout.Theere is a castle and a mouse wouldn't fit in it and all the men in Derry wouldn't count all the windows in it. A thimble.If a black man and his wife and three children went up on a mountain and one of the children fell down where were the other blacks going? They were blackberrying.John Byrne, Court, Monamolin, Gorey.
- Collector
- John Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Courtballyedmond, Co. Wexford
