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School: Teampoll Doire, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 9060)

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Templederry, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Flannagáin
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    Up chip-cherry and down chip-cherry and all the men in Derry would not climb chip-cherry
    A. Smoke.
    Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K?
    A. That
    As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the king's horses would not pull it up.
    A. A well.
    Big belly mother, long-legged father and three little children all the same colour?
    A. A pot and pot-hooks.
    Humpty-dumpty got a great fall, all the king's horses and all the king's men would not put humpty-dumpty together again.?
    A. An egg.
    Written by Mary Shanahan,
    Clohinch,
    Templederry.
    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 Shanahan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloghinch, Co. Tipperary