School: Ballycorus (roll number 8294)
- Location:
- Baile Mhic Fheorais, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Teacher: E. Nic Shionóid
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- 1/ Patch upon patch without any stiches riddle me that and I will buy you a new breeches
Head of cabbage
2/ What has a red head and a wooden leg
a match
3/ What has only one head one eye and one leg
a needle
4/ A little white and round house and it is full of meat it has no doors nor windows to let me in to eat
an egg
5/ As round as an apple as plump as a pear a split in the middle all covered with hair.
an eye(continues on next page)- Collector
- Cáit Ní Máinseal
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Mhic Fheorais, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath