School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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- (continued from previous page)When mother saw the two daughters cut a bit off she said that she would cut off another bit so when John got up in the morning the breeches were too short and he couldn't go to the wedding.
- Riddle: As round as a marble as flat as pail, he never cries till he is caught by the tail.
Answer: A bell.
Riddle: As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all.
Answer: The sun.
Riddle: It is put in the corner it will stay in the corner and it will go around the world.
Answer: A stamp in the corner of a letter(continues on next page)- Collector
- Paul Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountjudkin, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountjudkin, Co. Tipperary