School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)As round as an apple as fat as a pan half of a woman and whole of a man.
A penny.
Spell a broken down ditch in three letters.
Gap
If I was in the sun & you were out of the sun what would the sun be.
A sin.
Deep it is damp it is fit for any man woman or child.
A grave.
What banks have no money in them.
River banks.
The lepper of ditches a cropper of thorns a little brown cow with two ledder horns.
A hare.
As I went up the stairs ( red) white I came down red (read).
A paper.
- Collector
- Brigid Hoban
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathgarvan or Clifden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Denny Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Rathgarvan or Clifden, Co. Kilkenny
