School: Carrigeencor (roll number 10826)
- Location:
- Carrigeencor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Annie Gillmor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 005
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- Riddles
1 What's full and holds more.
(A pot of potatoes holds more water.)
2. Chip, chip, cherry, all the men in Derry couldnt climb chip, chip, cherry? (smoke)3. Londonderry, cork, and Krry, spell that without a "k". (that)
4. 40 sheep went through a gap. 20 more followed tat, 6,7,10,16,3 and 2 how many is that? (5)
5. Why does a hen pick a pototish? (Because she cant lick it)
6 What goes through the wood and through the wood, and never touches it? (a knife is a mom's pocket.
7. As I went up corn Hill, Corn Hill was shaking, and all of the birds of Corn Hill was gathered in one acre?(A man sowing rats)
8.Roomfulls and roomfulls; and you couldnt get a spoon full? (smoke)
9. I have a little cow, shes tied to the wall, she'd eat all the heather from hare to donegal? (she fine)
10. A Little round white house, full of meat, no doors, no windows to let me in to eat? (one egg)
11. What walks with its head down? ( A nail in a man's boot)
12. What goes round the wood, and round the wood(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Annie Gillmor
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
