School: Caisleán Grás, Cloichín an Mhargaidh (roll number 11288)

Location:
Castlegrace, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó hAilgheanáin
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    What part of Dublin is in France?
    The letter n
    As I went into a garden of wheat I picked up a thump that any man could eat. It was neither fish, flesh nor bone. And in three weeks it walked alone
    An egg
    Leaves of ditches, crops if thorns, a little brown cow and a pair of leather horns
    A hare
    I have a little red car, she sits by the wall, she eats all I give her and drinks nothing at all
    The fire
    What eye never sheds a tear?
    The eye of a needle
    What is the difference between an aeroplane and a tree
    One sheds its leaves and the other leaves its shed
    What roof covers the most noisy tenant
    The roof of your mother
    What has legs and cannot run
    A chair
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eily Lonergan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Tubbrid, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Thomas Lonergan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Tubbrid, Co. Tipperary