School: Killenaule, Dúrlas Éile (B.)
- Location:
- Killenaule, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0564, Page 162
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There is a little man in the middle of the field and when you pull his hand his nose would bleed
A pump.
As I walked out as I walked in I saw death without and life within six remained the seventh got free riddle me that or hanged i will be.
A birds nest in a dead horses ear.
Why is a madman like two ordinary men.
Because he is a man beside himself
Which is the wickedest part of the church
The Nave
What is taken from you before it is given to you
Your photograph.
I ran and got it I sat down and looked for it but I did not get it I had to keep it
A thorn in your foot
What is the differance between a school master and a post master
One licks with the stick and the other sticks with the lick
Why dos a hen pick a pot
because she cannot lick it
What author was never slow
A swifth
When a clock strike thirteen what time is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crosscannon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Crosscannon, Co. Tipperary
