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School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)

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Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0242, Page 127

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    27. What has an eye and cannot see. Ans (a needle)
    28. Constantinople - it is a very big word if you cannot spell it you are a very big dunce. Ans (it)
    29. What man in parliament has the biggest hat? Ans. the one with the biggest head
    30. Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes.
    Ans = a tongs.
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  2. Famine Lore (continued)

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    which the road was made are an indication of the standard of living of the Irish peasant at the time. The men received four pence a day as road-makers and the girls and women the same amount for carrying gravel. The gravel was carried in specially constructed creels. This brings home to our minds that carts drawn by animals were not in use at the time.
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