School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)
- Location:
- Mohober, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mathghamhna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 038
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- (continued from previous page)A gun.
Never was and never will be; look at your hand and you will plainly see?
Your fingers will never be the same length
There he sits up on a tree a little soldier in red: a pellet inside his stomach pit and a helmet on his head?
A haw.
When is a pony like a mouse?
When he is in a trap.
As black as ink as white as snow and it hops on the road like hailstones?
A Magpie.
Scrape the haggard in three letters?
HEN.
I went a path I came a path and I carried a path on my back?
A ladder.
Twenty (six/sick) sheep went out a gap one died how many came back?
Nineteen.
What is the difference between a jeweler and jailor?
One sells watches and the other watches cells.
When is a door not a door?
When it is (ajar/a jar).
Where are all kings crowned?
On the head.
Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballintaggart, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintaggart, Co. Tipperary
