School: Cnoc Rua
- Location:
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 359
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- (continued from previous page)have we tired tire a house worry a man tell me the riddle if you can.
A man on a saddle.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man.
A penny.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Kerry would not lift it up.
A well
What has teeth and does not eat.
A rake.
What has feet and does not walk.
A pot.
When is the clock hungry.
When it is going to eight.
If you have a fire and a candle to light and you had only one match which would you light first.
The match.
Round the house and round the house and never comes into the house.
A path.
Spell red rouge in three letters.
FOX.
- Collector
- Mary Kate Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs M. Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
