School: Ballyline, Callan (roll number 14395)
- Location:
- Ballyline, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máire Nic Craith
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- As I was going to the fair of Foynes I met ten tinkers and their wives, each of them had a bag, and in every bag there was a cat, and every cat had a kitten. How many were going to the fair of Foynes?
One. (myself)There was a fiddler in Ballylongford who had a brother a fiddler in Ardee, and the fiddle in Ardee, had no brother a fiddler in Ballylongford?
Because it was his sister.If a threewheeler is a tricycle and a twowheeler a bicycle what is a onewheeler?
A wheel barrow.I had an uncle, and he had a brother, and he was no uncle of mine?
He was my father.What is the best thing to put into a cake?
Your teeth.What goes up a ladder with its head down?(continues on next page)- Collector
- Micheál Ó Lorcáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballyclovan, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Patrick Commins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 66
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballyclovan, Co. Kilkenny