School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Tamhlachtain, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)Why is a snail stronger than a horse.
12. Because it carries its house on its back.
As round as a apple as flat as a pan the have of a woman the hole of a man.
13. A penny - There was a great famine in the year 1846 and 47. It effected the people very much, and they used to die in very thick numbers. The potato crop failed and the people had nothing to eat. Many people went to foreign lands.
- Collector
- Patrick L. Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tamhlachtain, Co. Laoise
- Informant
- Michael Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tamhlachtain, Co. Laoise