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 119
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- (continued from previous page)Why does a hen pick the pot.
Because she couldn't lick it.
Why is the letter P the poorest letter in the Alphabet. It's the first letter in pity and the last in help.
England, Scotland, France and Spain, met together in a shower of rain, turned, twisted, tied with a string riddle me that and I will give you a gold ring. Puddings.
As I was coming out of the parlour into the hall I met a man and he let a bawl he had a head of flesh and a mouth of horns and such a man was never born. A cock.
Four little sisters tall and small, you couldn't do without one of them if you hadn't them all. A set of knitting needles.
What breaks as often as it appears. The dawn.
On what day of the year do women talk the least. The shortest day 21st December.
When is a dress like an armchair. When it is sat in (satin).
Ketty Gleeson, Knocknagorriff, Templederry,
November 8th and 10th 1937.
Told by Jim Gleeson
Knocknagorriff, Templederry,
Thurles, Co Tipp
Age 54 years
- Collector
- Katty Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknagarve, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Jim Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Knocknagarve, Co. Tipperary
