School: Cnoc, Abbeyleix (roll number 2324)
- Location:
- Knockardagur, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seán Ó Huallacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 161
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- "How many calves tails would it take to reach the sky"?
Answer: "One if it were long enough"."Out of a roomful I could not get a spoonful"?
Answer: "Smoke"."Up the road and down and carry the road on your back"?
Answer: "A ladder"."When is the clock hungry"?
Answer: "When it is going to eight"."Over the ground and under and still never touches the ground"?
Answer: "A pile in a miner's pocket"."Black I am and much admired gold and silver for me was paid and on the ash-heap now I am laid"?
Answer: "Coal"."As I was going out in a guttery gap I met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying east"?
Answer: "A bottle of whiskey"."In the garden was laid a beautiful maid as fresh as the flowers in the morning, in the prime of her life she became a wife and died before she was born"?
Answer: "Eve".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boleybeg, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr W. Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boleybeg, Co. Laois
