School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- R. The leaper of dichers, the clipper of thorns a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns?
A. A hare.
R. What is like half of the moon?
A. The other half.
R. Why does a cow look over a ditch?
A. Because she could not look under it.
R. There were nine tea (nine) cups on a table one got broken how many were left?
A. eighty nine.
R. Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four?
A. A woman milking a cow.
- Informant
- Mrs Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- R. As round as an apple as flat as a pan, the half of a woman and the whole of a man.
A. A Penny.
R. As I looked out my gago window I lost my gago ring I saw the dead burying the live is not that a wonderful thing.
A. A ship sinking.
R. As green as grass as red as blood as black as soot.
A. A blackberry(continues on next page)
