School: Baile Roibín, Knocktopher
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Súilleabháin
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- What is the shortest station on the line.
Inch.
What is the four letters that would brighten a thief.
O.I.C.U.
What gets wet while drying
A towel.
What is the lightest county in Ireland.
Down.
What county would remind us of a candle burning out.
Wicklow.
The queen of Morocco built a ship an in that ship her daughter sits an I will be blamed for telling her name an that in three times I have told her name.
An.
What is the loudest thing in the world.
A candle because it awakes the dead.
Patches upon patches without any slide stitches riddle me that and I will give you my bretches.
A head of cabbage. Nellie Deloughry
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- Nellie Deloughry
- Gender
- Female
