School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)
- Location:
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 118
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- As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the kings' horses wouldn't draw it up. A well.
Why is a dead ass compared to a narrow boreen. Because he has no breath in him.
What turns without moving. Milk.
What goes up the ladder with its head down. A nail in a man's boot.
Over the fire and under the fire and never touches the fire. A cake in a baker.
Ink Ank under a bank ten drawing four. A woman milking a cow.
Up chip cherry and down chip cherry and all the men in derry wouldn't climb chip chop cherry. Smoke.
As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all. The sun.
What's full and holds more. A pot full of potatoes.
What part of the cow goes over the ditch first. Her breath.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katty Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknagarve, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Jim Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Knocknagarve, Co. Tipperary
