School: Coolroebeg, Thomastown (roll number 12487)
- Location:
- Coolroebeg, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eochagáin
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- (continued from previous page)Riddle me that and I'll give you a gold ring.
A sheaf of corn.6 A little red heifer lies close to the wall.
She eats pleanty of fodder and drinks nothing at all.
The fire7. What county in Ireland is most like a candle burning low
Wick-low8. As I was running. A thing I found.
If I could get it I'd throw it away.
And as I could'nt get it. I kept it all day.
A thorn in your foot.9. Patch upon patch and not one stitch in it.
A head of cabbage.10. As i walked out. And as I walked in. I saw death outside and life within. Seven sat and one got free. riddle me that or hung I'll be.
a birds nest in a horses skull.11. What turns without moving.
milk12. High up and low down wears shoes and has none
The road.13. As I went up a height. I looked down a hollow and saw twenty-four bulldogs.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Powerswood, Co. Kilkenny