School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Caisleán an Chomair (roll number 10835)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Na Mná Rialta
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 090
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)and one said to the other "I'm the father of your son." What relation were they?
A. Husband and wife.
Q. If a fiddler in Kerry had a brother a fiddler in Cork, and if the fiddler in Cork had no brother, what was the fiddler in Cork to the fiddler in Kerry?
A. His sister,
Q. In the wood I got it. I sat down and looked at it, because I could not get it. I brought it home with me?
A. A thorn in your foot?
Q. When there is forty patches on a breeches, what time is it?
A. Time to get a new one.
Q. Pray tell me ladies if you can, Who that highly favoured gentelman. Who though he marries many a wife and still may live single all his life?
A. A priest.
A. No head I have and a tail I lack, but oft of arms and feet and legs. I inhabit the palace the tavern the cot if a monarch were present no fable I would tell. My place should be at the head of the table.
A. An armchair.
Q. What is a thing long and narrow,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
