School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- 80 It is all homes and it holds up water
The crane
81 What is always behind time?
The back of a clock
82 A hard working father a lazy old mother , twelve little children all the same colour.
The face of a clock
83 I went out between two woods and came in between two waters.
A man went to the well with two timber buckets and came back between two buckets of water.
84 If I fell off the top of a house what would I fall against?
My will
85 Two n's, two o's , and l, and a d, put them together and spell them fro me
London
86 What town could you spell backwards and forwards?
Navan
87 In Amsterdam 'tis common and here it is waiting still, it is in every mountain and not in any hill, it is in every timber and not in any tree?
The letter 'm'
88 What part of a car goes into a town first ?
The noise.
89 What tree carries most fruit to the market?
The axle tree of a car.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Teresa Berkery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Foildarragh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Berkery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Foildarragh, Co. Tipperary
