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School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)

Location:
Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 523

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    43) What goes round the house in the daytime and sleeps in the corner at night?#
    - a brush
    44) What is like half the moon?
    - the other half.
    45) What turns without moving?
    - milk
    46) As I went out a muddy gap I met my uncle David. I cut off h is head and left his body easy
    - a head of cabbage
    47) Hairy all over, rough in the skin, two things shaking and one going in
    - a pig eating
    48) What is always eating and never drinking
    - a fire
    49) What is always drinking and never eating?
    - a lamp
    50) Why does a hen peck a pan?
    - because she can't lick it
    51) What part of a cow goes across the road first
    - her breath
    52) Why does a cow look over a ditch
    - because she can't look under it
    53) Black I am and red I will be. Many a man has injured me. He broke my back and split my face and sent me from my native place
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Willie O' Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhar, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Michael O' Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Ballyhar, Co. Kerry