School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Cluain Mhic Nóis, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- RiddlesBlack within and black without, four corners round about.
(Anwer): A sod of turf.There is thing both long and droll and decent people sucks a hole in it.
(Answer) A pipe.Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more after that, six, seven, ten eleven, two and three how many is that?
(Answer) 5I have a roomful and cannot take a spoonful.
(Answer) SmokeTwo pots boiling and no coal under.
(Answer) LimeI took up the botherine? and down the(continues on next page)