School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
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- (continued from previous page)Q. - What is the difference between a lamp post and a bottle of castor oil?
A. - One is hard to get up and the other is hard to get down.
Q. - Broken-backed father
Big belly Mother
Three little children like one another?
A. - A pot
Q. - Spell black water in three letters?
A. - Ink.
Q. - Spell red rogue in three letters?
A. - A fox.
Q. - Jenny in the ditch
Jenny out of the ditch
And if you touch Jenny
He will bite you?
A. - Nettles
Q .- As I went out a slippery sloppery gap
I met my uncle Davie
He had an iron nose and timber toes
And 'pon my word he would frighten the crows?
A. - A gun.
Q. - Which County in Ireland is the lightest?
A. - Down.
Q. - Around the house and around the house(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