School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)
- Location:
- Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seasnáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0495
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- Q. It rises high it lies low it wears shoes but it how no feet.
A. A Football.
Q. Two Germans went into a shop one day. The shopkeeper asked them what relation were they. One of them said. I'm a father of that Germans son. What relation were they.
A. Husband and wife.
Q. The man that made it never used it, and (that) the man that used it never saw it
A. A Coffon.
Q. Tis green and damp and yet tis fit for King and Queen.
A grave.
Q. Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K.
A. That.
Q. A fellow met a fellow in a fellows field say's a fellow to a fellow what a fellow means. How many Fs in that.
A. No one.
Q. If there are thirty holes in a man's britches. What time is it.
A. Time to get a new one.
Q. Riddle me riddle me what is that over the head and under the hat.
A. The hair of the head
Q. As I went out a guttery gap. I met my Auntie Nora she had tember toes and Iron nose and one my word she would frighten the crows
A. A gun.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Lawless
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bookeen South, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Lawless
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Bookeen South, Co. Galway
