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boroman wrote: »

The following are houses in the town, all of which have had one thing in common.

Where am I.

(1) I once contained a fruit and veg. shop and apartments to let.
(2) I have horsey connections.
(3) I was once owned by someone with a clerical name.
(4) I had an owner one time that had two wives.
(5) I am small but am a sophisticated house.
(6) I had a front room lodger who numbered Dev as a friend.
(7) I had a neighbour one time who was a newspaper correspondent.
(8) I was once a nursery.
(9) I was next door to a dog that never barked.
(10) I am now what my neighbour was once.

I do not think that these questions are too hard, anyone that think they have the answers may send them to emmetsabu@gmail.com
We will keep the powder dry for a week or two.

YOU don't think the questions are too hard! I wouldn't say the same for the rest of us. Could the one thing in common be Listowel? That's about as far as I've got. Not only is the powder dry, so is my grey matter.
Best of luck Pintman.

Below is a paper cut out at the time of what I believe were the senior hurling and the junior football county champions from the Listowel Tech. Not quite sure what year though, 62 or 63 ish??

Miss Cellaneous wrote: »

Either there are multiple answers to these questions or I am on the wrong track entirely :rolleyes:

I will not be drawn into giving any clues, the 10 questions concern 10 different houses, and again I repeat, they all have one thing in common.
I feel that this simple little quiz might last for a good few weeks.

boroman wrote: »

The following are houses in the town, all of which have had one thing in common.

Where am I.

(1) I once contained a fruit and veg. shop and apartments to let.
(2) I have horsey connections.
(3) I was once owned by someone with a clerical name.
(4) I had an owner one time that had two wives.
(5) I am small but am a sophisticated house.
(6) I had a front room lodger who numbered Dev as a friend.
(7) I had a neighbour one time who was a newspaper correspondent.
(8) I was once a nursery.
(9) I was next door to a dog that never barked.
(10) I am now what my neighbour was once.

I do not think that these questions are too hard, anyone that think they have the answers may send them to emmetsabu@gmail.com
We will keep the powder dry for a week or two.

Maybe some of our new friends on the forum could help with these puzzlers. They definitely refer to an era before I came to town.

Clarifications needed:
(2) Since the whole town has horsey connections you will have to be more specific.

(3) Was this man in possesion of two wives at the same time?
(5) Define sophisticated
(7) I have, on occasion, written to but not for a newspaper. Does sending a letter count as a correspondent?
I think the dog that never barked is over the Central hotel. He sits beside the Maid of Erin.
As you can see, I'm working hard on this one.

Having read your many utterances I have come to the following conclusions.
Our great friend Canon Linnane can pontificate on Sunday mornings about the Holy Trinity and other similar mystery’s and not a gig out of the lot of you, sitting there smiling, pretending you understand the whole lot, and now when poor old boroman tries to brighten up an otherwise dark and dreary post snowbound Listowel end of January with 10 simple little questions, there is a threatened mutiny on the Listowel thread.
The usual suspects, i.e. ably led by cherry tree, price of the pint, miss cellanous and cois feile, already are pretending to be suffering from acute loss of the grey matter, no, I am not going to fall for their little tricks, as I have already said, no more clues.
I have never heard the bate of it, pintman , put on the specs, I did say all the houses (all ten of them) are in the town. Another fellow is rambling about a wife who he thinks may have been a ghost, all I can say is, this is no ghost story (if you get my drift), while another is trying to put words into my mouth with mutterings of multiple answers (multiple answers how are you, I wouldn’t know one if it fell down on top of my head).
The way things are going, I surely must be a strong fancy for sainthood for putting up with you lot.
Away with you all now and go back to the study.
Regards,
Boroman.
PS. And if ye all weren’t bad enough, along comes an email from ‘up the ashes’ going on about ‘has anyone taken a photo of the white rocks!!!!,
I think tis rocks in the head ye have!!
PPS. If this keeps up I will consider pulling out of town altogether, so you all better start treating me with the respect that I deserve. !!!!!
ppps, Oops, I forgot to mention that the person to be deemed the winner will need to identify each of the houses along with what they have in common, otherwise it would be too easy.

Miss Cellaneous wrote: »

This is driving me crazy so I'v decided to put an end to it .:eek: I have picked a connection - something the houses might have in common (probably way off the mark) and I'm gonna stick to it. I will make those answers fit the connection ( right or wrong) come hell or high water - you can get square pegs into round holes. ! :rolleyes: Mind you I am having trouble stuffing that front room lodger into a round hole and as for that dog...
Maybe I should pick a different connection ?

You're right. That's the way to go. Here are a few suggestions for the connection;

1. All houses are in the same street. Maybe The Small Square
2. All houses were once owned by people who share a surname, maybe Stack, Enright, Carmody, Mc Elligott or some such "local" name.
3. All of them are now shops/no longer shops.

That's my tuppence worth for now.

boroman wrote: »

I will not be drawn into giving any clues, the 10 questions concern 10 different houses, and again I repeat, they all have one thing in common.
I feel that this simple little quiz might last for a good few weeks.

I have the answer to the Quiz.



They are all HOUSES.

I am sure Boroman we tell us something else but I know that I am right.

Nothing, but the sound of silence from the very heart of boroland, while others run around like headless chickings clutching at straws. However methinks the end is nigh.

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If i remember growing up paddy powers was a nursery at one time.i think the owners were leahys from moyvane.berkies was once a butcher like his neighbour murphy and the only other betting shop i can remember was owned by gleasure just above john B.s.he went out of business when mr. what won the grand national and could not pay off the full winning odds.

:pAnswers to quiz

(1) Q I once contained a fruit and veg. shop and apartments to let.
A. The old technical school building, P.Whelan had a fruit and veg. shop and
Ml Barrett had apartments to let. Now, Bruce Betting office.

(2)Q. I have horsey connections,
A Brendan Daly, Race Co. Secretary, lives in what was a Betting office.

(3) Q. I was once owned by someone with a clerical name
A. Number 41 Patrick St. was occupied by Ml. Parsons Betting office.

(4) Q. I had an owner one time with two wives.
A. Paddy Browne great grand father to Berkie Brown, was married twice and
he lived where Berkie has the Betting office.

(5) Q. I am small but am a sophisticated house.
A. Chic Boutique once housed Malachy Skelly and O’Flaherty Betting office.

(6) Q. I had a front room lodger, who was a great friend of Devs.
A. Jim Clarke, Ballybunion bookie and grandfather to Brenda and Kevin
Woulfe, was a personal friend to Dev, (you can ask Brenda to verify)
he had the front room of Moore’s , 9 Patrick St. rented in the 1950s, here
Paddy Kinlon from Ballybunion ran the Betting office.

(7) Q. I had a neighbour once who was a newspaper correspondent.
A. Oliver Broderick’s (rudai deasa, now Jack the Boots) had as a next door
neighbour, part of the Sheeben now, a man who was a correspondent
for several Tralee newspapers, his name, D.C. Hennessy, there was a
book of his verses launched at Writers Week some years ago, called The
Lays of North Kerry, T. Rogers was associated with the Betting Office.

(8) Q. I was once a nursery.
A. Senator O Sullivan now owns this property; it was also part of Cronin’s
hardware, Leahy nurseries from the Athea side ran a business there in
the 1950s, a certain Denis VG had a shop there as well. Now it is
occupied by the Paddy Power Betting office.

(9) Q. I was next door to a dog that never barked.
A. I really liked this one! This is the lower half of the Arcade shop,
(Where the bould Damian has his sign Small Window-Big Shop), this
is, we all should know next to John Bs, the original owner
was T.D.oSullivan and what was the name on the window,
The Greyhound Bar (one that never made a sound), if you don’t
believe me ask Mary Keane, anyway back to the business, where
Damian has this shop was occupied by firstly, in the late 1940s early
1950s by Johnny Moriarty and then until 1957 by Bysie Cleasure and
what business did they have ?, a Betting office.

(10) Q. I am now what my neighbour was once.
A. The house I required was once owned by Jamsie Stack, it is next
door to Brendan Daly’s which was once a betting office ran by
Alf Hogan and then Eddie Walsh, now Stacks is occupied by
Celtic Betting office.

In case anyone has not copped on by now, what all the houses have in common, they are or were betting offices at one time. As the answers are long I hope they will go up on boards all right. A review of the ANSWERS will take place along with the BANKING enquiry.




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I enjoyed our little quiz and I enjoyed the answers even more. Interesting stuff, indeed.
Thank you for enlivening a dreary January

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I have a couple of photos that have come into my position of classes from the boys school. Not sure how they are in the family as none of my relatives are in them. See can spot anybody you know!:)

Yet more road works

Feb 16 2010 ;
early morning;
Listowel

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