School: Ballinatone, Rathdrum
- Location:
- Ballinatone Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Miss Stuart Miss Campbell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0921, Page 005
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There was a little house a mouse could not live in it and all the men in town could not count how many windows in it.
A thimble.What has a mouth and no tongue.
A river.Patches upon patches without stitches,
A head of cabbage.Benny O'Leary 21st December
Ballinatone
Rathdrum
- Why are ripe potatoes in the ground like thieves.
Because they ought to be taken up.
Cecil Ireland 21st December
Whaley Abbey
Rathdrum - Collector
- Cecil Ireland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bahana (Whaley), Co. Wicklow
- If a poker, shovel and tongs cost £1..0.0 what will a ton of coal come to.
Come to ashes.What is the first thing a gardener plants in his garden(continues on next page)
