School: Brownhill (roll number 11427)
- Location:
- Tirnaskea North, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Ghamail
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- (continued from previous page)for a bone? A shoe.
X. Spell broken-down-ditch with three letters? Gap.
11. Why is a cow's tail like a swans breast? Because it grows down.
12. A head like a thimble, tail like a rat you can guss forever but you couldn't guess that? A pipe.
13. What becomes bigger the more we take from it? A grave.
14. What is all eyes and yet can't see? A crook.
15. A cow and a calf cost a dollar and a half, what would a ton of coal come to? Ashes.
16. Why dose a donkey eat thistles? Because it's an ass.
17. When is a farmer cruel? When he threshes his corn.
18. What goes over the hill and never comes back again? A path.
19. What has legs and can't walk? A table.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Traynor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockronaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Betty Wilkinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corragh (Maxwell), Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- John Irwin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killygavna, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr John Wilkinson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corragh (Maxwell), Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs H. Traynor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockronaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr W. Irwin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killygavna, Co. Monaghan