School: Cill Cruain (B)
- Location:
- Ballyglass South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 405
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- 1. The man that made it did not want it and the man that bought it did not wear it, and the man that wore it did not see it. A coffin.
2. What is always behind time? The back of a clock.
3. Round about, round about and all heads down. Nails in a man's shoe.
4. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man. A penny.
5. What rattles a gate more than a pig? Two pigs.
6. Why does a hen cross the road? To get to the other side.
7. A leaper of ditches, a clipper of corn, a tidy little fellow with two leather horns. A hair.
8. When was beef the highest? When the cow jumped over the moon.
9. What turns without moving? Milk – it turns sour.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Turlough, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Knockogonnell, Co. Galway
