School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 238
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Once upon a time a man named Jack the Boo or Jack Mac Geoghegan, one of the famous Mac Geoghegans that lived in Jamestown, near this place and he had two very valuable horses. At that time, if a Protestant offered a Catholic £5 for a horse that was worth £20, he would have to give the horse. Jack went to Mullingar one day and he brought the horses with him. A Protestant man came up to him and said he would give him £5 for the horses. Jack MacGeoghegan drew a revolver and shot the horses and then he said to the Protestant "Now you may have them".
Francis Duffy.
Author: J. Brennan
Castletown Geo.Riddles
1. What will go up a chimney and will not go up a chimney up?
An umbrella.
2. What goes up and down and up and down and never touches sky or ground?
The handle of a pump.
3. Round the wood and round the wood and cannot get into the wood?
The bark of a tree.
- Collector
- Francis Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- J. Brennan
- Address
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- (continued from previous page)1. What will go up a chimney down and will not go up a chimney up?
An umbrella
2. What goes up and down and up and down and never touches the ground?
The handle of a pump
3. Round the wood and round the wood and cannot get into the wood?
The bark of a tree
