School: Árd-achadh (B.) (roll number 14075)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Anraoi Musgrave
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- Information Collected from Mr. Tim Scanlan.
1 Under the fire and over the fire and it never touches the fire
Ans:- A cake in an over.
2 I threw it up a ball of white and it came down a ball of yellow.
Ans:- An egg.
3 Through a ruck,
Through a reel,
Through an old spinning wheel,
Through a horse's shin-bone
Riddle me that and leave me alone.
Ans:- A cannon ball going through the field of battle.
4 The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
Ans:- A coffin
5 What part of the cow goes over the ditch first?
Ans:- Her breath(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr Tim Scanlan
- Gender
- Male