School: Clonmel Convent (roll number 12180)
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Peadar
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- 22nd Sept '38
Riddles. (Local)
As white as milk, as green as grass, as red as blood and as black as ink?
Answer -: A blackberry
Little red Nancy with a little red nose the longer she lives the smaller she grows?
Answer :- A candle.
Forty sheep went out a gap twenty white and twenty black six and seven twice
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- Collector
- Mary Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
