School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat (roll number 13028)
- Location:
- Castlegannon, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)If he went up eight feet every day, and came back four feet every night. How many days would he give going up.
Answer. Two days.What is it Without flesh bones or feathers.
Answer - An Egg.It is white it is black it is red all over.
A Paper.What runs from Waterford to Dublin and never moves.
Answer - The Road.It is black it is white and it hopes on the road like hale stones
Answer - A magpie.What is the difference between a white horse and the barrack.
Answer - The Barrack is white and the horse is white.
- My Grandfather was a very old man. He told my father a story about the bean-sidhe before he died. One night he heard the voice of the bean-side and he followed the voice up the chaple lane and the voice went into the church yard and my Grand-Father went in after it and he saw two candles lighting on his own grave and he went home and a few days after the child died in the house.
