School: Coolfancy, Tinahely
- Location:
- Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill

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- Red, blue, orange and green
The king can't touch it
Neither can the queen
The Pope in Rome could touch it as soon
So riddle me that from morn till noon.
- A rainbow.As black as ink, as white as milk
And hops on the road like a hailstone.
- A magpieWhat is the softest county in Ireland?
- Co. DownI have a little house and a mouse could not live in it
and all the men in Dublin could not count the windows in it.
- A thimbleI killed my mother, buried my father, married my sister, and committed no sin?
- A clergymanWhat has only one leg?
-A stocking(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alice St Leger
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolroe, Co. Wicklow