School: An Clochar, Ceann Tuirc (roll number 10232)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Seosamh; An tSr. Berchmans
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- What is half of the moon like?
The other half.
Under water, over water, never tips the water.
A woman going over a bridge with a bucket of water on her head.
What has four legs, a head and one foot.
A bed.
What goes up when the rain comes down?
An umbrella
There was a little house and a mouse couldn't live in it, all the men in town couldn't count how many windows in it.
A thimble.
Why does a cow go over the wall?
Because she cannot go under it.
There was a fiddler in Kanturk and a fiddler in Newmarket. If the fidler in Kanturk was a brother to the fiddler in in Newmarket, but the fiddler in Newmarket was not his brother what was he to him
A sister(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary E. Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortknockaneroe, Co. Cork
