School: Newtownanner, Cluain Meala (roll number 1559)
- Location:
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 103
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- (continued from previous page)chimney for a chase.
Answer, Smoke and sparks.
What is always going but never moves.
Answer, A clock
What goes around to every house, and stops at the door?
Answer. A footpath.
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“Two women went looking for their two husbands...”
Two women went looking for their two husbands. They went to a Public House. One of them went in and came out again. The other asked her did she see them. I did" she said. "I saw our two husbands, our two fathers, the children's fathers and the children's grandfathers, and yet there were but two me there.?
Answer. A father and daughter married to a father and daughter.
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Three men were in a motor car, two white men and one black man.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Priorstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Patrick O' Gorman
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Railway worker
