School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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- (continued from previous page)seventy four years of age when he died in 1910.
Q. What else has a riddle besides holes?
A. Corners.
Q. Why is Germany the richest country in the world.?
A. Because it is on the Spree. - Q. There was a thing was three weeks old,
When Adam was no more,
That very thing was three weeks old,
When Adam was four score.
A. The moon
Q. Pat's wife and Tom's sister went to rob a bird's nest together. There was four eggs in it and they took an egg each how many (was) were left.
A. Three. (Pat's wife was Tom's sister)
Q. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
A. A habit- Collector
- Patrick Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinnagrelly, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Benson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Kinnagrelly, Co. Sligo