School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- Q: There is a machine that is not made of iron or wood and it moves one hundred thousand times during the day and sometimes it keeps new for one hundred years.
A: A person's heart
Q: What is it that you have that I have not but I use it more than you that has it?
A: Your name
Q: Spell black bird with four letters
A: Crow
Q: What is it that was to-morrow and will be yesterday?
A: To-day.
- Collector
- Alice Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Ellen Daly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- James Daly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Q: Why is a bad nib and a hen so much alike?
A: Because they both scrape.
Q: Four stick standards, Four dilly danders, two hooked crookers and a wag about.
A: A cow.
Q: What is it that goes up when the rain comes down?
A: an umbrella
Q: What is it that is always behind time?
A: The works of a clock
Q: Spell broken down ditch in three letters
A: Gap(continues on next page)
