School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)ans. A newspaper
2. As round as an apple as plump as a pear it climbs over churches steeples and all.
ans. The moon.
3. What goes up a ladder with its head turned down.
ans. the nails of your boots.
4. There is a thing in a field and if you lift up his hand his nose his nose will bleed. ans. a pump
5. What is it that has teeth and still can't eat.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Other names
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Maureen Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kellsborough, Co. Kilkenny
