School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 104
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- Where can you have a pain beside in your head?
A window.
What is it that is black and turns red?
A sod of turf when you put it into the fire.
Why is a bar of toffee so much like a race-horse?
Because the more you tick it the faster it goes.
Eight arms, a wooden leg which cannot stand, a satin dress a belt across the middle. Could you guess this funny riddle?
An umbrella.
What is it we all saw and we will never see again?
Yesterday.
Chip chip cherry all the men in Edenderry could not climb chip chip cherry?
The smoke.
What is it we are bound to go round at night?
Our rosary beads.Collected by Celia Dalton (10), Bracklin, Kilbeggan, Wmeath from Thomas Dalton (50) of above. Farmers 25.11.'37
- Collector
- Celia Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
