School: Cill Chláráin, An Fhiacail
- Location:
- Kilclaran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Muineóg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 433
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Q 19 A ribbon of red and a ribbon of green a king could not guess it neither could a queen they went for the wise man out of the east who said it had horns but it was not a beast.?
A A sprig of holly with berries on it.
Q 20 What is the eldest of of all the trees.?
A Elder.
Q 21 What tree grows nearest to the sea.?
A The Beach.
Q 22 What is it was formed long ago yet made to-day no one wants to do without it no one wants to throw it away.
A A bed.
Q 23 As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the the church over steeple and all.
A The sun.
Q 24 What stick does not grow in the wood .
A A Candlestick.
Q 25 What blooms and withers away after a few years and never blooms again.?
A A person when they die.
Q 26 The king has no call to it no more then the queen.
A A rainbow.
Q 27 Inkank under a bank ten drawing four ?
A A woman milking a cow.(continues on next page)
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- Teresa Ní Chomhraidhe
- Gender
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