School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)
- Location:
- Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seasnáin
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A. Because she cannot look under it.
Q. Why does a hen pick a pot?
A. Because she cannot lick it
Q. What part of the cow goes out the gap the first?
A. Her breath
Q. Why does a tin-whistle?
A. Because a tin can.
Q. What two trees remind us most of the sea?
A. The Bay and the Beech.- Collector
- Rita Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr William Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway