School: An Teampoll Geal, Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 3549)

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   “As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, at one side a woman, and at the other side a man.”

   

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   As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, at one side a woman, and at the other side a man. Answer = Penny What always walks with its head down Answer = A nail in your boot What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood Answer =The bark of the tree Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that Answer = A pipe

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brighid Ní Cólbert

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Canty, Co. Waterford

2. The Moresby

   

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   About 43 years ago a vessel called the Moresby sailed into Dungarvan harbour for shelter. It was on Christmas eve and a terrific gale was blowing. The captain, not knowing the water struck a sand bank. The Ballinacourty life-boat came to their assistance but the captain refused to leave the boat. During the night the gale grew worse..

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