School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 221
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- Q When do people bath the least?
A In February.
Q Why is a vain lady so much like a drunkard.
A Because they are both fond of the glass.
Q Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you will never guess that?
A A pipe.
Q There is a white and round house, and it is full of meat, it has no doors nor windows to let me in to eat.
A An egg.
Q What is the question and no other answer will suit but you?
A What does YES spell
Q My father went out to sow seed the seed was black and the ground was white riddle me that and I'll give you my pipe?
A The newspaper.
Q What is the difference between a station-master and a school-master?
A One minds the trains and the other trains the mind.
A What goes with the coach, comes with the coach is of no use to the coach and still the coach can't go without it?
Noise.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Grehan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Readstown, Co. Meath
