School: Móin Árd (C.) (roll number 2012)

Location:
An Mhóin Ard, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
Léan, Bean Uí Riain
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    Under the fire and over the fire and it never touches the fire?
    A cake in the oven.
    How many sticks to make a crows nest?
    None of them go they are all carried.
    What eye can never see nor never will?
    They eye of a needle
    I had a little house and a mouse could not fit in it all the men in town cound not count all the windows in it?
    A timble
    Why does a crow look over the ditch?
    Because he can't look under it
    Why does a hen at the left side of a road cross it?
    To get to the other side
    Cork and Kerry, London, Derry, spell that without a K?
    That
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