School: An Bhlárna (C.)
- Location:
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Winifred Scantlebury
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- What wears shoes and has no legs?
A road.
What goes up when the rain comes down?
An Umbrella.
It goes around the house and around the house and stops in the corners?
A brush.
What turns without moving?
Milk.
As I went up a slippery gap I met my Auntie Joanie, she had timber toes and iron nose and upon my word she'd frighten the crows?
A man with a gun.
What is the centre of gravity?
The letter "V"
What three letters does a robber dread?
I.C.U. (I see you.)
Why is Patrick Street like a bed?
Because there is a Bolster in it.
Cork and Kerry, Londonderry spell me that without a "K"?
That.
Its neither fish, flesh, nor bone but it has five fingers of its own?
A Glove.
As round as an apple as plump as a ball it can climb over Church, steeple and all?
The Sun.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Ellen Ingerton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blarney, Co. Cork