School: Baile Dubh (2), (B.)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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- As round as an apple as plumb as a ball it climes over which hover steeple and all?
Answer The sun
A head like a thimble a tail like a rat you can guess for ever but you will never guess that?
Answer A pipe
Under water over water but never touching the water?
Answer A woman going over a bridge with a bucket of water on her head.
The man who wore it never saw it. The man who saw it never wore it.
Answer A coffin
Twenty sheep upon a gap twenty more on top of that twice eleven six and seven three and two how many is that?
Answer Five
Betty inside the ditch Betty outside the ditch and if you will touch her she will bite you?
Answer A nettle
- Collector
- Thomas Fennessy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolishal, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolishal, Co. Waterford
