School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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Q. What can go up a chimney down and cannot come down the chimney up?
A. An umbrella.
Q. The man that made it never wore it and the man who wore it never saw it?
A. A habit.
Q. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
A. Because she can't look under it.
Q. As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman and the half of a man?
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- Collector
- Master P. Lawton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clasharinka, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Master W. Ronayne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 20
- Address
- Ballyvorisheen, Co. Cork