School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 140
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- (continued from previous page)cock left on table and he took it and went through the window and off with him.
The parson went out to call him back but the man shouted back "go to - I am out of your reach now.
- Q. What is the best way to get down off an ass. Ans. You cannot get down off an ass you get down off a goose.
Q. How could you make an ass jump as heigh as Nelson's Pillar
Ans. You couldn't because sure Nelson's Pillar didn't stir at all.
Q. Once three women went along the road to the shop and each of them had two daughters with them how many were in it. Ans seven.
Q. There was a well forty feet deep and a herring used to come up two feet every day and go back a foot every night how long was he coming to the top
Ans. Thirty nine days. - Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
