School: Cluain Abhann (roll number 16127)

Location:
Cloonown, Co. Roscommon
Teachers:
Seán Ó Riain Máirtín Ó Riain
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    iron nose and upon my word he'd frighten the crows. - a gun.
    How far can a dog run into a wood - halfway, he is running out the rest of the way.
    What part of a cow goes over the ditch first - her breath.
    Round is the world it turns and wheels and death is a thing that everyman feels and if death was a thing that money would buy the rich would live and the poor would die.
    How many sides has a circle - two sides, the inside and the outside.
    If it takes a man ten minutes to wash himself what will it take to dry himself - a towel.
    What is it and the more you take from it the larger it gets - a grave.
    What is it that a man would not like to have for the whole world - a bald head.
    What is it that is ten inches by four and yet contains a foot - a boot.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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    English