School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)
- Location:
- Crappagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Horan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 290
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- I went to the town because I wouldn't go and I came back because I would go?
A watch.Spell water in three letters.
Ink.I went to Mrs. Murphy & I asked her how many hens she had. She said if she had as many more and half as many and 7 she'd have 32; how many had she?
10.What goes from Cavan to Dublin without moving?
The Road.What grows in the wood. sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound?
A Violin.What lives when it eats and dies when it drinks?
A Fire.What has four legs, a head and a foot?
A Bed.Chink, clank, down yon bank, ten drawing four?
Person milking a cow.Mild I am and much admired.
Many a horse and [?] I tired.
Shave my head and pare my face.
And take me from my dwelling place.
TurfWhy is a lazy boy like the back of a clock?
Because he's always behind time.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- M.J. Mc Goldrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockcor, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Peter Mc Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumary, Co. Monaghan
