School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- (continued from previous page)Q. I was born in Ireland and I fought for Ireland, my parents were born in America and they stoped in America.
A. A game cock.
Q. What goes from Dublin to Cork and never comes back.
A. A railway line.
Q. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood.
A. A bark of a tree.
Q. Four stiff standers, four diddles danders, tow luggers, two crookers a shaker and a licker.
A. A cow.
Q. Forty sheep went through a gap forty more were after that six, seven ten a eleven, two and three how many is that.
A. Five.
Q. What goes over the hill and never comes back.
A.A path.
Q. I am (also) alway in jam but never in jerry. I am alway in apple but never in nellie.
A. A
Q. If a boy was Irish his mother was Scotch and if he was born(continues on next page)- Collector
- Seamus Timmon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clowninny, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Hugh Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clowninny, Co. Cavan