School: Ballynarry
- Location:
- Ballynarry, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: E. Mac Gabhann
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- There are two graveyards in our parish one in Carrinck and one in Ballynarry. Both are in use about a hundred years. The shape of the graveyard is Rect Angular. The first that was buried in Ballynarry graveyard was Pat Smyth's Grandfather of Aughakilmore. It was full of big trees and Father Early cut them down. Carrick graveyard is a bigger one than Ballynarry and it is not attached to the church. It was re built about ten years ago. It is only all catholices that are buried in Ballynarry graveyard.
- Collector
- Ita Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- 1. Q If a pig is a hog what's a hogget?
A. A yearling sheep.2. Q How many pigs with a sow or an Irish halfpenny?
A. Five.3. Q. If a wall separates Mrs. Browne's garden from Mrs. Whyte's & a peacock lays an egg on the wall to which of them does the egg belong.?
A A peacock couldn't lay an egg.4. Q. If a black horse has a white face what colour is his eyebrows.
A. A horse has no eyebrows.5. Q. What turns without meaning?
A. Sour milk.6. Q What is the dead centre of Dublin?
Gleanevin cemetry.
