School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)

Location:
Cloontagh, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Garaidh
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    never guess that.
    A pipe.
    As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over Church, over steeple and all. The sun.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not lift it up?
    A well.
    Under the coals and over the coals and never touches the the coals?
    A cake on a pan.
    What is full and can hold more?
    A pot of potatoes, it can still hold the water when full of potatoes.
    A bridge on a lake without stick or stone.
    A sheet of ice.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mícheál Ó Cuinn
    Gender
    Male
  3. What workman never turns to the left?
    A wheelwright.
    What is the only thing that can live in a fire?
    A live coal.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.