School: Rinn Tuirc (roll number 9835)
- Location:
- Reenturk, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: S. Bean Uí Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 269
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- There was a fiddler in Clare who had a brother a Piper in Kerry but the piper in Kerry had no brother a fiddler in Clare.
Answer. The fiddler in Clare was his sister.
Could it be that a man killed his mother buried his father and married his sister and commited no sin. (yes)
Ans. When this man was born his mother died therefore he was the cause of her death, he grew up a boy and his father died and he buried him, he then went to College and became a priest came home and married his sister to another man.
Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.
Ans. A loaf of bread in an oven.
I went into an orchard and there were apples on a tree and I neither took apples or left apples on.
Ans. There were two apples on the tree and I took one and left one.(continues on next page)
