School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Ciardha
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- 1. What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Ans – carpet. 2. What is the difference between a schoolteacher and an engine driver?
Ans – one trains the mind and the other minds the train3. What is the difference between a mat and a bottle of medicine?
Ans – one it taken up and shaken, the other is shaken up and taken 4. What walks on top of its head always?
Ans – a nail in the sole of a shoe.5. Where did the cock crow so that every living being heard him?
Ans – in Noa's Ark.6. Why is a man who has taken the pledge against drink no good to his wife?
Ans – because he does not support her (sup porter)7. I went up the road and down the road and then I took the road away on my back
Ans – a ladder8. A blind beggar had a brother and the brother died. The latter had no brother(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jeremiah Donovan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
