School: Beith Mhór (Beaghmore) (roll number 1209)
- Location:
- Beagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 344
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- (continued from previous page)master and a station master?
A. One trains the mind and the other minds the trains.
Q. What is the longest word in the English language?
A. Smiles, because there is a mile between the first and the last letter.
Q. Hard working father, lazy mother, and twelve little children as lazy as each other?
A. The face of a clock.
Q. If a Fender and fire iron cost three pounds what would a tonne of coal come to?
A. Cinders.
Q. What stands outside the wood and eats inside?
A. A pig eating out of a trough.
Q. When were there only two vowels?
A. In the days of no A (Noah) before u and I were born.
Q. What is it the more you take from it the bigger it gets?
A. A Hole.
Q. Why is Ireland the richest country in the world?
A. Because its capital is always Dublin (doubling)
Q. What are the two lightest counties in Ireland?
A. Down and Cork.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Miltron Glebe, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Frank Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Miltron Glebe, Co. Leitrim
