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School: Sean-Mhachaire (roll number 17015)

Location:
Shanvaghera, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Máille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0108, Page 318

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    What is full and holds more?
    Answer. A pot of potatoes.
    It opens like a barn door it shuts like a trap and many a thing you would think of before you would think of that?
    Ans. An umbrella.
    A man went into a holy church there were no doors nor windows how did he come out?
    Ans. He came through a hole because it was a holey church, a church with holes in it.
    As I came in the door I saw the dead burying the living?
    Ans. The ashes burying the living coals of fire.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Christina O' Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meeltran, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Delia O' Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Meeltran, Co. Mayo