School: Lacken
- Location:
- Lackanduff, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: P. Colreavy
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- (continued from previous page)is a sup and every man and woman must take a sup:- Death
Forty sheep a shepherd and his dog how many feet is that:- Two
Why should Ireland be the richest country in the world:- Because its capital is always Dublin (Dubling)
What goes up a ladder and its head down:- A nail in a man's boot
What goes from house to house and stays at no house:- A path
As round as an apple as flat as pan one side a woman and the other a man:- a penny
What goes round the house and round the house and lies in the corner at night:- A brush
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Connon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Peter Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pollafree, Co. an Chabháin
