School: Moneygall (2)
- Location:
- Muine Gall, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Bean Ní Cháirr
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 038
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- 1. Two dead men fighting
Two blind men looking on
Two cripples running for the [?]
Two dummies shouting hurry on! hurry on.
Answer: A lie
2. It is red; it is white; it is favourable + green
And the king can't get at it any more than the queen.
3. As round as an apple
As deep as a cup
All the kings horses
Could not draw it up. Answer: A well.
4. Adam was the greatest of all runners being first in the human race.
5. What is one half the sun like.
Answer: The other half.
6 Where did the cock crow when the whole world heard him : In the ark.
7. A beautiful maid, in the garden was laid
As bright and as fair as the morn
Betrothed as a wife on her first day of life
She died before she was born. : Eve.
8 If it took four yds to make a coat + waistcoat what would it take to make a suit : A Tailor(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maeve Talbot
- Gender
- Female
