School: Dún Átha, Carraig an Chabhaltaigh

Location:
Doonaha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Ed J. Headtromóin
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    and died that night (Two candles)
    Brown I am, much admired, many is the horse I have tired; tire a horse, worry a man, tell me this riddle if you can (a saddle).
    A man without eyes saw apples on a tree. He picked no apples, and no apples there left he. (A man had one eye and he saw two apples so he picked one apple and left one apple)
    A ship three thousand miles from sea, without a compass, without a hand. How can that ship get to dry land? (It is in dry land)
    Hairy all over, rough in the skin, two things wagging and one thing going in. (a pig eating)
    As I looked out the window I saw the dead carrying the live. (A ship carrying people)
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