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 120
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- As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb over church and steeple over all. The sun
Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll buy a breeches. A head of cabbage.
Middy-nobby round body three foot and a wooden hat. A pot
One half dead the other half living and a tail wagging.
A dog with his head in a pot
What walks with his head down,
A nail in your boot.
What's full and holds more,
A pot full of potatoes.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for but you won't guess that. A pipe
Under the fire and over the fire, but still never touches the fire.
A cake in a baker.
If a tongs and finder cost one pound eighteen, what will a ton of coal come to? Ashes
If a man falls off a ladder what he does he fall against. His will(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Loughman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commaun More, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Shanahan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Commaun More, Co. Tipperary
