School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 088
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- Q. One time there was twins born in March and their birthday was in October and the father died and one of the twins became a priest and married the mother and the other one died an old maid:
A. Their birthday was in October because March was the name of a place.
Q. Three brothers went into a churchyard and two of them said a prayer over the mother and the other lad said my mother is not buried there.
A. They were christian brothers.
Q. Long legs short tye small head and no eyes.
A. A tongs.
Q. As I looked my grandfather's window I saw twenty little devels roots on the ground.
A. A harrow.
Q. As I looked my grandfather's window I saw the dead carrying the live
A. A bicycle.
Q. As I went a slobbery gap I met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and left his body
A. A head of cabbage.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Anne Kileen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
