School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 007
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- What is brought to the table, cut and never eaten?
A pack of cards.
If I built a wall from here to Donegal what height would it be?
The height of nonsense.
What smells most in a chemist's?
Your nose.
What is the shyest thing in the world?
A clock because it always has its hands on its face.
Spell red rogue running across the bog, in three letters.
F.O.X.
What goes up and down and still never moves?
A mountain.
What turns but never moves?
New milk turning into sour milk.
Two little maidens dressed in white, got the fever and died last night.
Two candles.
As round as the sun as flat as a pan the whole of a woman and the head of of a man? A penny.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cornelius Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballincor Demesne, Co. Offaly
