School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)
- Location:
- Copany, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1035, Page 338
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- 1. “When first the marriage knot was tied
Between my wife and me
My age exceeded hers as much
As three times three does three
But ere ten years and half ten years
We man and wife had been
Her age reached as near to mine
As eight is to sixteen.”How old were we when we got married?
Ans. She was 15 years and I was 45.2. “Forty white horses tied to a wall.
Out jumps a red one
And leaps over them all.”Ans. Teeth and tongue.3. What fruit grows on a penny?
Ans. The date.
- Collector
- Adhamhnan Mag Fhionntaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
