School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)
- Location:
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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- (continued from previous page)A knife in a man's pocket
8. A messenger from house to house and always stays out.
A path
9. Why is a dog like a tree?
Because both loose their bark when they die.
10. What is the greatest wonder on the map of Europe?
The Hungary did not eat Turkey.
11. What is the difference between a spend thrift and a pillow?
One is hard up and the other is soft down.
12. Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
A cake in the oven.
13. When was Adam married?
On his wedding eve.
14. What is always hot in cold weather?
A grain of mustard
15. What three great men would a woman call if her house was burning?
Dickens, Hewet and Burns
16. What has a swelled head and stands on one leg?
A head of cabbage.
17. What goes up when the rain comes?
An umbrella
18. What is the tree whose name forbids suicide?
The Olive(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Brigid Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Peter Fitxmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
