School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)
- Location:
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
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- (continued from previous page)As black as ink, as white a milk hops on the ground like hailstones. A magpie
What part of a cow goes over the ditch first. Her breath.
As round an apple as deep as a cup and all the king's horses wouldn't pull it up. A well
What's too short and if you cut a bit off it will be long enough.
A grave
As I went up the hill in wonder I saw twenty-four blackbirds tearing the hill asunder. A harrow
Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four. A woman milking a cow.
What goes in black and white and comes out red (read) read all over. A newspaper
Why does a hen pick the pot.
Becuase she couldn't lick it.
Why is a dead man compared to a narrow boteen. Because he has no breath in him.Michael Loughman,
CommaunMoore, Templederry,
November 8th and 10th 1937Told by Mrs Kate Shanahan
Commaunmoore, Templederry,
Thurles. Co. Tipp
Age 76 years- Collector
- Michael Loughman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commaun More, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Shanahan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Commaun More, Co. Tipperary