School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)
- Location:
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
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- As I went up a steeple I met three christian people, they were neither men, women or children but still they were three christian people. A man, a women and child.
As I was going alond the road I met a man with forty pieces in his breeches what time was that. Time to get a new one.
What are you always looking for but never like to find. A hole in you stockings.
What is the longest word in the Englist grammer. Smiles.
Who wears the biggest hat. The person with the biggest head.
A little red cow tied to a butchers stall, she drinks all she gets but eats none atall. A lamp.
I built a house two miles long what height was it. The height of nonsence.
Middy - noddy, round body three feet and a wooden hat. A pot
What goes round the wood(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Quinlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commaun More, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Anne Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Commaun More, Co. Tipperary