School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)
- Location:
- Garbally, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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- (continued from previous page)Ans. The end of May.
It never was, it never will be, look at your hand and you can plainly see ?
Ans. Your small finger as big as your other one.
It goes around the house all day, and it stands at the door at night ?
Ans. A broom. - As I went out the gap, I met my Uncle Tady, I cut his head off and left his body easy ?
Ans. A head of cabbage.
The Queen of Mullroe she builds her ship and in that ship her daughter sits and I will be killed for telling her name and thats three times I have told it ?
Ans. Ann
What will a hundred tons of coal come to ?
Ans. Ashes.
What does the I.O.C. bus stand for ?
Ans. Passengers.- Informant
- Walter Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 29
- Address
- Skehanagh, Co. Galway