School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Eglish, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Heifearnáin
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“As I looked out through my wonderful window I saw white driving white out of white wasn't that a most wonderful thing?”
Name: Michael Coughlan, Cloncarbon.
Age: About 52 years. Farmer
Date: 8:2:1938As I looked out through my wonderful window I saw white driving white out of white wasn't that a most wonderful thing?
White dogs driving white cattle out of white cabbage.What makes more noise than one pig at a gate?
Two pigs.Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes?
A tongs.What is it that goes from door to door and is more afraid of a cock and a hen than of King George and all of his men?
A. A worm.What would go up the chimney down and wouldn't come down the chimney up?
An umbrella.What's neither inside in the house nor outside on the house?(continues on next page)- Informant
- Michael Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloncarban, Co. Offaly