School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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- 1 A long thing legless went by the door footless, saying woman keep in your hens I am not afraid of your dog.?
Ans. a worm.
2 Under the fire and over the fire but yet never touches the fire?
Ans a cake in an oven.
3 It went to Tory and stopped there and came back to Dublin because it did not go there.?
Ans a watch.
4 As I went up the hill of wonder, came down the hill of thunder and saw twenty four blackbirds leaving the hills asunder?
Ans a harrow.
5 What is it that goes around the wood, around the wood but still never goes through the wood.?(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joseph Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Madden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drominagh, Co. Tipperary