School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 210
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- No. 18. There is a single temple supported by a great column, the column is surrounded by 12 towns, each town has 30 buttresses, and beside each buttress are two women, one white and the other black, who measure its circumference; what is the temple?
Answer: The Year.No. 19. There was a man he had no eyes,
And he went out to view the skies,
He saw a tree with apples on it,
He took no apples off it,
And he left no apples on it.
Answer: 2 Apples on the tree.No. 20. An old lady died and left the fortune of 333£, she stipulated that it should be equally divided among two fathers and two sons. Each of them was to receive 111£. How was it that the old lady's calculation proved correct?No. 21. I have but one horn of me unicorn,
I gave milk, and am no Kerry cow,
My grandma she loves me, and on the board shoves me,
With a smile of good luck on her brow.
Answer: The teapot(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- An Chorr, Co. an Chabháin
