School: Baile an Lóin Tighe (Ballinlonty) (roll number 1579)
- Location:
- Ballinlonty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Áine Ruiséall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 070
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- 1.What part of the cow goes out the gap first?
Her breath.
2.Would five go into one?
yes five fingers would go into one glove.
3.What is too short, cut off a bit of it and it is long enough?
A glove.
4.How is a river compared to a watch?
Because it has a tick in it
5.How is a river compared to a watch?
Because it has a tick in it
6.What is the nearest bird to a fire?
a crane.
7.As I was going to the fair of the mines, I met ten tinkers and their wives, each wife had a cat, each cat had ten kittens, kittens, cats, tinkers and wifes how many were going to the fair(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Tipperary
