School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)

Location:
Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
Teachers:
M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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    Riddles
    1 What is taken off you before it is given to you.
    A Photograph
    2 Black and white and hops on the road like hailstones
    Magpie
    3 The King of a rock who built a ship an in that ship his daughter sits an I'll be blames if I tell her name an there is three times I told it ANNE
    4 Twenty eight cow tied in a stall a red one comes up and licked them all TEETH AND TONGUE
    5 What is it when drinks it dies FIRE
    6 How many sticks go to build a crow's nest.
    NONE THE BRINGS THEM
    7 Three little dogs Trep Trop and Tray which is the bitches name
    WICH
    [Brian Carolan]
    1 What sort of a stone would you get at the bottom of a river. A WET STONE
    2 What kind of a bridge is it a man cant cross
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English