School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)
- Location:
- Doonflin Upper, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)7 As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all.
Ans The sun
8 The more you take from it the bigger it gets.
Ans A hole in the ground.
9 What is it when it breaks it never falls and when it falls it never breaks.
Ans Day break and night fall
10 I looked through my wingers and saw the dead burying the live
Ans Raking the fire- Collector
- Frank Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skreen, Co. Sligo