School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 266
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- (continued from previous page)Q. - Enk ank under a bank ten drawing four?
A. - A woman milking a cow.
Q. - North, East West and South
Three hundred teeth and no mouth?
A. - A saw.
Q. - I have a little house and a mouse couldn't live in it
And all the King's men couldn't count the windows in it?
A. - A thimble.
Q. - Black and white and read all over?
A. - A paper
Q. - When is a cow the rounder?
A. - When she is licking her back.
Q. - A leaper of ditches a crapper of thorns
a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns?
A. - A hare.
Q. - If I got up on an ass where would I get down?
A. - On a goose.
Q. - Headed like a thimble
Tail like a rat
You may guess for ever
But you wouldn't guess that?
A. - A pipe.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Sharkey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clongowna, Co. Tipperary
- Collector
- Margaret Rigney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs William Sharkey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Clongowna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr William Rigney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
