School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)

Location:
Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
C. Ó Maonaigh
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    standing at the room door, and he was looking all around him. She asked "John what are you looking for." "I am looking for our trousers," he replied.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
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    Collector
    Maud Wylie
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corfad, Co. Monaghan
  3. Once upon a time three men met together an Englishman and Irishman and a Scotchman. They asked each other what they would take and climb Nelson`s Pillar in there night attire. The English man said he would take fifty pounds, the Scotchman said he would take one hundred pounds. The Irishman
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