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School: An Talamh Bán

Location:
Tallavbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137, Page 088

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  1. Tomhaiseanna (continued)

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    What is like half the moon?
    The other half
    Its as normal as a griddle and as flat as a pan
    Its the whole of a woman and half of a man.
    A penny
    A child said to its father one day,
    "how is it that you are my father
    and I am not your son?"
    She was his daughter
    A fiddler in Cork had a brother a fiddler in Achill, and the fiddler fiddler in Achill no brother.
    The fiddler in Cork was a girl.
    The highest island above the sea?
    The sky
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English