School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 027
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- (continued from previous page)but nothing else? Answer. A bottle.
(11) What is it which never asks questions but yet requires many answers?
Answer. A doorbell.
(12) Divide three loaves between a tinker and his wife and a sweep and his mother giving each one a loaf. Answer. The tinkers wife was the sweeps mother (therefore) one loaf each.
(13) A fiddler in Cork had a brother a fiddler in Kerry, but the fiddler in Kerry had no brother a fiddler in Cork. Answer. It was a sister.
(14) What town in Ireland is spelt backwards and forwards the same way? Answer. Navan.
(15) Which ship (is) do we all like to avoide. Answer. Hardship.
(16) The queen of England sailed in a ship and in the ship her daugher sailed nn Ill be killed if I tell her name, an that's three times(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Lavelle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slevoir, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- David Lavelle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Slevoir, Co. Tipperary
