School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)
- Location:
- Mohober, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mathghamhna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 045
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- (continued from previous page)A motor car carrying people.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan. Tis half of a woman and half of a man?
A penny.
Why is a dog like a tree?
Because when they both die, they lose their bark.
- My mother sent me to the wood for breasna, she told me not to bring a straight stick or a crooked stick but to bring Breasna?
Breasna was the name of a dog.
Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
A bake in an oven.
Long legged father, big body mother, three little children all dying with the hunger?
A pot.
What is it the poor man has,
The rich man wants,
The blind man sees,
The deaf man hears?
Nothing.
Where do you always find happiness?
In the Dictionary.
Around the house, around the house, and sleeps in the corner?
The brush.
What is the smallest bridge in the world?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lilly Blackmore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Ned Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Jessfield, Co. Tipperary
