School: Teampoll Doire, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 9060)
- Location:
- Templederry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Flannagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 076
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- Why does a cow look over the ditch?
Because she cannot look under it.
What is cut and packed and never eaten?
A pack of cards.
What is always in a river and never in a flood, tis always in timber and never in a wood?
The letter R.
Betty inside the ditch and Betty outside the ditch and if you touch Betty she will bite you?
A briar
A sound as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman ,the other side a man?
A penny.
Ink,ark,under a bank ,ten drawing four?
A woman milking a cow.
As I was running one day I found something ,when I found it I looked around, if I got it I'd throw it away and when I didn't I kept it all day?
A thorn in my foot.
Four little men both thin and tall(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mae Foxe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughane Lower, Co. Tipperary
