School: Clondulane, Mainistir Fhearmuighe
- Location:
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Aindrias Ó Scannail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0378, Page 213
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- Who is it that married many a wife and yet remains single all his life? - A priest.
What comb is the sweetest? - Honeycomb.
What poet was never slow? - Swift.
Why is a naughty boy like a stair carpet? - Because he cannot be kept in order without a rod.
What is the oldest tree in the world? - The elder tree.
What is most like a horses shoe? - The other one.
In and out like a trout, slippery, wet and greasy? - Your tongue.
What goes from Dublin to Cork without moving? - The road.
As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Davey I cut off his head and left his body easy? - A head of cabbage.
It went to Frnace and did not go there it came back because it never went there? - A broken watch.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cochláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Maurice Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
