School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)
- Location:
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Question. There was a man rode through the town Great Britian was his name the horse he rode was shod with gold three times I have his name.
Answer. Was.
Q. As I went up to Saint Luke's I met three Christian people they were neither men, women, or children, what were they.
A. Man, Woman, and child.
Q. As I went up to saint Ive's I met nine men and their wives each wife had a cat and each cat had a kitten and how many went up to St Ives.
A. No one but myself. I only met them.
Q. If Jacks father was Paddy's brother what was Jacks father to Paddy's mother.
A. Her son.
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