School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- What key is the hardest to turn?
(A donkey)
If a man fell accidentally what would he fall against?
(His will.)
What three things cannot be found?
(A shoe for the foot of a mountain, a towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean.)
Headed like thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you couldnot guess that?
(A pipe) - What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
(A hole)
Collected by: - Pádraig Ó Faoileáin, Lemeneigh
Told by: - (Mrs) Ellen Whelan, Lemeneigh, (his grandmother)
(80 years)