School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 268
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- (continued from previous page)and sleep under the bed at night?
A.- Your boots
Q.- Six tea cups were brought to a table one was broken how many were left?
A.- Five.
Q.- Twenty white cows standing in a stall
Up comes a red one and licks them all?
A.- A tongue
Q.- As I looked over the garden wall
I heard a man giving a call
His beard was flesh
His mouth was horn
and such a man was never born?
A.- A cock.
Q. - Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a k?
A.- That
Q.- If (you) U were out of the sun and I in it what would the sun be?
A.- Sin.
Q. - As round as an apple
As flat as a pan
One half a woman
And the other a man?
A. - A penny.(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
