School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- 11-1-38 Riddles
As round as an apple as deep as a pail and it wont say jingle until you pull its tail.
A bell.
Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters.
Fox.
Patch upon patches without any stitches
riddle me that and I will buy you a breeches.
A head of cabbage.
Spell a broken down ditch in three letters.
Gap
Riddle me rantia a thousand teeth and no mouth.
A briar.
As I went over a steeple I met three christian people they were neither men wemon or children what were they.
A man a woman and a child.
What part of a cow goes over the ditch first.
Her breath.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Kealy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathgarvan or Clifden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- James Tyrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Brickana, Co. Kilkenny