School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 265
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- Question - Why do you go to bed?
Answer - Because the bed won't come to you.
Q. - Why does a donkey eat thistles?
A. - Because he is an ass.
Q. - Why is it that a cow looks over a wall?
A. - Because she can't look under it.
Q. - Why is it that a hen picks a pot?
A. - Because she can't lick it.
Q. - As I went up the hill of wonder I saw twenty-four little devils tearing the hill asunder?
A. - A harrow.
Q. - What part of a cow goes out a gap first?
A.- Her breath.
Q.- Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
A.- A cake in a beaker.
Q. - As round as an apple as plump as a ball, it climbs over church over steeple and all?
A. - The sun.
Q. - As round as an apple
As deep as a cup
and all the kings horses wouldn't pull it up?
A. - A Well(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Sharkey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clongowna, Co. Tipperary
- Collector
- Margaret Rigney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs William Sharkey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Clongowna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr William Rigney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
