School: Áth Dúna, Gleann an Phréacháin, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12542)

Location:
Chimneyfield, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Duinnshléibhe
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    The longer it lives the shorter it grows.
    A candle.
    Under fire over fire and never touches fire.
    A cake in a bastible.
    There was a man in Adam's race
    He had a certain dwelling place
    Neither in heaven or in earth where Christians dwell
    And in his house there was a door
    Which never a man entered before.
    Jonas in the whale's belly.
    Long legs thing thighs small head and no eyes.
    Where was Moses when the light went out.
    In the dark.
    Constantinople is a very big word if you can't spell it you are a very big dunce.
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