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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (roll number 13313)

Location:
Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
Teacher:
An tSiúr Bernard
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    Q. In divers park there walks a deer his horn's silver bright and clean neither, fish, flesh, blood nor bone in Divers park he walks alone.
    A. The Moon.
    Q. I ran until I got it I sat down and I looked for it and when I could not get it I brought it home with me.
    A. A Thorn.
    Q. There is a table in my fathers garden it is neither beech, oak, elm or Yew or any timber ever grew.
    A. Ice
    Q. I went to the wood for a little bit of timber about the size of my little finger it made a ladle and a baby's cradle and I had the half of it after.
    A. A nut
    Q. A duck before two ducks and a duck behind two ducks and a duck in the middle between two ducks. How many ducks were in it.
    A. Three ducks.
    Q. Why is a loaf of bread upon top of a steeple like a
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Mulryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisnagrish, Co. Longford