School: Baile Chíorbhaic, Domhnach Mór (roll number 1691)

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   “As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman the half of a man.”

   

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   R. What trees remind us of the seaside. A. The bay and the beech. R. When is a horse not a horse. A. When he is turned into a field. R. When are roads most greasy. A. When the rain is dripping. R. What is as crooked as a river. A. Its banks. R. What is the meekest thing in the house. A. The Clock because it always has its hands before its face.

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2. Place Names

   

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   I live in the townland of Kilmartrin and there are many fields around my house which have many different names.
   There is the quarry field just above our house and it is very big there is a big quarry in the middle of it and it is full of stones and is very deep.
   Another one is named "The kiln field. It is fairly big too. There was a kiln there long years ago. There is the haggard field because the haggard is quite close to it and hardly any cattle graze on it.

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