School: Drumcrow
- Location:
- Drumcrow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Boylan
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- 1. A musical instrument, a fishery in vain stands for the townland that lie next Cornafeain.
Answer: Drumcoghill.
2. What is the shiest thing in the house?
Answer: The clock because its hands are always on its face.
3. What goes up the ladder with its head down?
Answer: A nail in a man's shoe.
4. What is the difference between an engine driver and a school master?
Answer: One minds the train and the other trains the mind.
5. What sleeps with its finger in its eye?
Answer: The crook
6. What is the smallest bridge(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rose Beattie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumbar, Co. Cavan