School: Lackamore, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 2428)
- Location:
- Lackamore, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Diolúnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 076
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- 1 What is it a man would not like to have and if he had it he would not like to lose it?
A bald head.
2 How many sides to a bucket?
Two - an outside and an inside
3 What part of the cow goes over the ditch the first?
Her breath
4 Why is a dead ass compared to a narrow boithrin?
Because he has no breath (breadth)
5 Which of the Apostles wore the biggest hat?
The one with the biggest head.
6 What is brought to the table, cut, divided, but never eaten.
A pack of cards.
7 Why does a cow look over the ditch?
Because she cannot look under it.
8 It is black and white and read all over?
A newspaper.
9 What has a bed but never sleeps in it, and a mouth but never eats?
A river
10 What is it that every body is doing at the same time?
Growing old.
11 Where was Moses when the light went out?
In the dark
12 As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Miss Lizzie Caplis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tooreenbrien Upper, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Murnane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Tooreenbrien Upper, Co. Tipperary
