School: Cluain Cátha (roll number 2243)
- Location:
- Cloncaw, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hanluain
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- (continued from previous page)one fine morning in the middle of the night
Answer:- A lie.
15. How many cows' tails would reach to the moon?
Answer One if it 'was' long enough
16 How many cuts does a well sharped scolop (scolbh) need? Answer: none (The meaning is - if it is well sharped it required no more cutting.) In sharping a scolop the thatcher gives it three cuts with the knife. The first cut makes it sharp like a chisel, then it receives one on each side at right angles to the first, thus producing a strong sharp point which is easily forced through the thatch.
27. What goes through the water and through the water and never touches it:- Ans - An egg in a duck
18 Spell Blackwater in three letters - Ans - INK
19 As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man
Answer :- A Queen Cictoria penny.
20. A roomfull a kitchen-full but you couldn't catch a spoonfull - Ans. The smoke.
21 Chip, chip, cherry, all the men in Derry couldn't climb chip, chip, cherry
Ans:- The Smoke
22 Why does a hen pick a pot. Ans:- Because she can't lick it.
