School: Cill Mhuire (roll number 8139)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ruairc
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- Riddles. 14/6/1938
Q. Its red and its yellow and its span green - the King cannot touch it no more than the Queen.
A. The rainbow.
Q Why is the letter "T" like Easter?
A. because it comes at the end of Lent.
Q. Twenty sick (six) sheep went out a gap, one of them died and how many came back?
A. Nineteen.
Q. I have a little cow, she lies against the wall she eats all she gets and drinks none atall?
A A fire.
Q. As I looked out my grandfather's window I saw the dead carrying the live?
A. A motorcar.
Q. What part of the train comes into the station first.
A. The noise.
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Garry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathmoyle, Co. Ros Comáin
