School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- 25-1-38 Riddles
What is the difference between a dead duck & a dead doctor.
Both of them gives up quacking.
As I walked out as I walked in death was outside that life was in five were sad & one was free, riddle me that or hanged I will be.
A head of a horse(s) with a (rokins) robins nest in the eye.
What goes from Kilkenny to Cork without moving.
The road.
What key is a poisonous one?
Whis-key
What is everybody doing at the same time.
Growing old.
As round as a apple as flat as a pan the whole of a woman & the half of a man.
A penny.- Collector
- Kitty Kelsey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bodal, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Bodal, Co. Kilkenny