School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- An Móta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: -
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 114
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- man and with a staff in old age.
2. What bore the best burden that was ever borne?
The ass because he carried Our Lord and Our Lady into Egypt.
3. Why do men make an oven in a town?
Because they cannon make a town in an oven.
4. Little red Nancy with little red nose the longer she live the shorter she grows?
A candle, because the longer it is left burning, the shorter it gets.
5. What is that which turns but never moves?
Milk because it turns sour but it does not move.
6. What goes up when the rain comes down?
An umbrella.
7. What is neither inside nor outside of a house, but still it cannot be done without?
A door.
- Collector
- Eileen O' Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyscarvan, Co. na hIarmhí
