School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)
- Location:
- Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seasnáin
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- Q. Up the road and down the road and carried the road on your back.
A. A ladder.
Q. Black and white and red all over.
A. A newspaper.
Q. Patches upon patches and no stitches.
A. A head of cabbage.
Q. A head like a timble a tail like a rat you may guess forever but you will not guess that.
A. A pipe.
Q. If you were above on the top of a high castle where would you get down.
A. Under a duck's wing.
Q. What part of a cow goes out a gap first.
A. Her breath.- Collector
- Monica Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Duane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Galway