School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- 22-1-38 Riddles
If a boy got sixpence for walking thirty miles what would he get for walking one hundred miles.
Sore feet.
What goes up and down & never tips the sky or ground.
The handle of a pump.
As round as a cup as flat as a pan
the head of a woman & the whole of a man.
A penny.
How far can you go into a wood.
You can only only go to the middle because if you go any farther you would be going out of it.
Middy-noddy round body three feet & a wooden hat.
A pot.
What goes around the wood & around the wood & never gets into the wood.
The bark of a tree.- Collector
- Mary Walton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Pat Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Watree, Co. Kilkenny