School: Cill Loiste (Killusty), Fíodh Árd (roll number 16111)
- Location:
- Killusty North, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mheacháir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 475
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- What it, that God never had, the King seldom has, and we always have?
A master.
In every house there is a drawer, in this drawer there is a cup, in this cup there is a sup and everyone shall taste it?
Death.
What is it that grows larger the more you take from it?
A grave.
If a fender and fire irons cost two pounds, what will a ton of coal come to?
Ashes and cinders.
Its red, yellow, purple, and green the King could not touch it, or neither the Queen?
The rainbow.
As I was going to the fair of Kilhides I met twelve men and their twelve wives, each wife carried a pack, each pack carried a cat, each cat carried a kitten, what would they all come to?
A number.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Lonergan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloran Old, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Lonergan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloran Old, Co. Tipperary
