School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 116
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- Q. What is it that was a month old at the birth of Our Lord and is not five years old yet?
A. The moon.
Q. What is it that is under the ground and over the ground but never touches the ground?
A. A knife in a miner's pocket.
Q. What is it that is neither inside the house, or outside the house, but still it is in the house?
A. A window.
Q. What stick never grows in the wood?
A. The candle-stick.
Q. What part of the cow goes over the ditch first?
A. Her breath.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Biddy Nash
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanakyle, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Con Denny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
