School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)
- Location:
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 116
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- As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all. The sun.
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the kings horses wouldn't pull it up. A well.
If I build a house from this to London what hight is it. The hight of nonsence.
A fellow met a fellow in a field of beans said a fellow to a fellow can a fellow tell a fellow what a fellow means.How many f's in that. No f.
It grew in the wood with leaves in it, it grazed the grass with hair on it, and now it is walking the road with live bones in it. A clog.
Tis on the table and tis cut, but still tis never eaten. A pack of cards.
Tis too short and if you take some off of it, it is long enough. A grave.
White little petticoat, red(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jerome Quinlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glastrigan, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Quinlan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Glastrigan, Co. Tipperary
