School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 212
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31. Useless, useless instrument, once it is bought it is never lent. A coffin.
32. Twenty-four white cows penned in a stall, up comes a red bull and licks up them all. Your tongue licking your teeth.
- 33. As I went out a slabbery gap I met my Uncle "Davy" I cut off his head and left his body easy. A head of cabbage.
34. Betty with the white petticoat Betty with the red nose the longer Betty stands the less she grows. A candle.
35. I have a little cow and she is tied to the wall she eats all she get and drinks none at all. A fire.
36. When is the clock hungry? When it is going to eight.
37. A roomful and you could not catch a spoonful. Smoke.
38. How many sides has a football? Two inside and outside.
39. What side of a jug is the handle on?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Breda Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Phil Ryan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
