School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 220
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- (continued from previous page)as I went up Tara Hill. Tara Hill was shaking four and twenty bull dogs tearing up the nation _ a man harrowing.
The more you feed it the better it gets the minute you give it a drink it dies_ The fire.
Why is a vain girl so much like a drunkard _ Because they are both fond of the glass.
Midy mody round body three feet and a wooden hat_ A pot.
Why does a hen pick a pot _ Because she cant lick it.
What is it that has eyes and still cant see. _ a potato.
A leaper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns. _ A hare.
What goes up the chimney his head down _ a nail in a sweeps boot.
If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a day and a half how many eggs will she lay in the year. _ She will lay 365.
- Collector
- Annie Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Elizabeth Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clondoogan, Co. Meath
