School: Ráthdubháin (roll number 9385)
- Location:
- Rathduane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Múinneacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0323, Page 004
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- There are many local riddles and the following are some - Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever and you wont guess that - A pipe.
A small little house and a mouse could not live in it, yet all the people of a town could not count all the windows in it. - A thimble.
Under fire, over fire, yet never touches the fire. - A cake in an oven.
What is full and can hold more?
- A pot full of potatoes when you can pour water in.
What is your own but is used most by others?
- Your name.
Name any other shoe like the horse shoe?
- The mare's shoe.
Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches? -
A head of cabbage.
This black and white and read all over?
- A Newspaper.
A dog and a bitch went over the ditch,
what was the bitche's name? - "What."
When is a farmer like a magician?
- When he turns a cow into a field.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Ned Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortavehy West, Co. Cork
