School: Trentagh (roll number 16331)
- Location:
- Na Tréantacha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: M. Nic Pheadair
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- Guesses.
1. What is the lightest thing you could put in your pockets?
A hole.
2. What is the strongest animal in the world?
The snail, because it carries it's house on it's back.
3. What instrument can you compare to a girl with a cut finger?
A cut - lass.
4. What would a broken window say if it was broken by a fallen tree?
Tremendous. Tree - mend - us.
5. When was beef the highest?
When the cow jumped over the moon.
6. I have a wee house, it would'nt hold a mouse, and it has all the windows in the king's palace.
A thimble.
7. What stands with its heart in its head?
A cabbage.
8. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but(continues on next page)- Collector
- May Harley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Tréantacha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Miss Annie Mc Geady
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Na Tréantacha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Crossan
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Na Tréantacha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Harley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Na Tréantacha, Co. Dhún na nGall