School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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- There is a useful article and when it is bought it is never lent. The man who buys does not want it and the man that wants it knows nothing of it.
A coffin.
He is knott in Drogheda. He is knott in Dublin. He is knott dead and he is knott alive and still he is in Drogheda spinning thread.
A man named Mr. Knott
- Collector
- Clare Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- James Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr J. Murray
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- James Street, Co. Louth
- What is it that a black hen can do and a white hen can not.
A black hen can lay a white egg, but a white hen can't lay a black egg.
How many sides has a round tower.
Two , inside and outside - Collector
- Mary O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mary Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr Christopher O' Neill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Mary Street, Co. Louth
