School: Cúl Doire (roll number 8008)
- Location:
- Coolderry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Máille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 007
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- (continued from previous page)What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood.
Answer The bark of a tree.
When it is 59 minutes past twelve how is it that it is compared to a wicked man or a woman.
Answer Because a wicked man would be near striking one and the clock would be near striking one.
What part of a cow goes over the ditch first.
Answer Her breath.
As I went into a roomful, I couldn't get a spoonful.
Answer Smoke in a room.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man.
Amswer A penny.
John Ryan Finnahy.
- (collected in the district:)
Told by my father, Denis Meagher, (55 years) Pallashill, to me. 24-11-'37(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Maher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pallashill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Denis Meagher
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Pallashill, Co. Tipperary
