School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)
- Location:
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 122
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- What is it that has a head and four legs. A bed.
What turns without moving. Milk turns sour.
What goes up the ladder with its head down.
A nail in your boot.
If a man fall off a ladder what will he fall against. His will.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all. The sun.
What part of a cow goes over the ditch first.
Her breath.
Betty inside the ditch, and Betty outside the ditch, and if you touch Betty, Betty will bite you. A nettle.
Ink, ank under a bank ten drawing four.
A woman milking a cow.
Why does a hen pick the pot.
Because she cannot lick it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Batt Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
