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School: Baile an Churraigh

Location:
Ballincurry, Co. Galway
Teacher:
A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 504

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    Riddles
    1. Q. What does a man do to a child when he beats him?
    A. He makes him yell o
    2. Q. In Dalgan park there runs a deer his two horns are shining clear and its neither fish, flesh, meat nor bone?
    A. : a snail
    3. A man sets out from Mullingar to Athlone running another man leaves Athlone walking which of them is nearest Mullingar when they meet
    : The same distance
    4. A man has six sons and each son has a sister how many in family has the man.
    : seven
    5. Which is right to say the yoke of an egg is white or the yoke of an egg are white?
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kate Tighe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreen, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mr Thomas Barlow
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonfaghna, Co. Galway