School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- An Príosún Thoir, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Riddles. Who is the man who can hold up a motor car with one hand? A civic guard. As I went up Sandyhill, Sandyhill was shaking and all the birds on Sandyhill would cover a half-an-acre? A man shaking oats. If a man was on the top of a house if he fell down what would he fall against? Against his will. As I was going to the fair of Saint Ives I met a man and seven wives, the seven wives has seven sacks. The seven sacks had seven cats. The seven cats had seven kittens. Between kittens cats sacks and wives how many were,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- An Príosún Thuaidh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
