School: Accony (roll number 5122)
- Location:
- Aghany, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Mac Giobúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0136, Page 299
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- (continued from previous page)The leaper of ditches
The jumper of thorns
The little brown cow with the two leather horns.
A hare.
How many feet has forty sheep, a shepherd and has dog?
Two
My father gave me seed to sow
The seed was black and the ground was white
Paper and ink
What county will float when all the rest are drowned.
Cork
If a fiddler in Louisburgh had a brother a fiddler in Wesport, but the fiddler in Westport hadn't a brother a fiddler in Louisburgh. How was that?
She was his sister.
Londonderry, Cork and Kerry
Spell me that without a a K.
That
The longer it lives the shorter it grows
A candle
What is the shyest thing in the world?
A clock
The more you take out of it the bigger it gets
A hole.
Ding dong under the bank
Then drawing four(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roonah, Co. Mayo
