School: Scoil Mhuire (B.)
- Location:
- An Scoil, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Liam Ó Raghallaigh
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A grave.Black I am, red I will be,
Many a man has injured me,
He split my skull, and broke my face
and brought me from my native place
A sod of turf.Spell broken ditch in three letters!
Gap.What blows north, south, east and west with a hundred teeth and no mouth?
A briar.What goes away over the ground and comes back under the ground?
A man drawing sods on his head. There was a man of Adam's race, he had a certain dwelling place, he didn't live in hell or heaven, hill or main.
Could you tell me that man of fame, where did he live? what was his name?
Jonas in the whale's belly.As I went up a slippery gap, I met a thing rolled up in a sop,(continues on next page)
