School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)
- Location:
- Menlough, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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- Ques. A little pony grey and slim, a long white flowing tail on him and now a man with a brassy hood keeps driving him along the wood.
Ans. A tailor sewing with a needle.
Ques. As round as a ball as flat as a pan the half of a (would) woman the whole of a man.
Ans. A penny.
Ques. Why does a cow jump over a ditch.
Ans. Because she cannot jump under it.- Collector
- Rita Scully
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- Martin Kelly
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- Age
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- Killoscobe, Co. Galway