School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- 18-1-38 Riddles
As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Ireland could not pull up.
A well.
I went up the stairs black and white and I came down red.
A paper.
What walks with its head down.
A nail in your boot.
Parch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that (with) and I will give you a pair of breeches.
A head of cabbage.
Why thoes a lady look at the moon.
Because there is a man in it.
What is the whitest part of a blackcow.
Her milk.
What is the smallest bridge in the world.
The bridge of your nose.
What tune makes everyone glad.
A fortune.
What is it that show others and cannot see itself.
A mirror.
What has a lot of eyes & no nose.
A potatoe.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny