School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)

Location:
Glen, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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  1. It long and its narrow and its not very wide and it has a green ribbon on every side?
    Two Yanks stood on a bank one of them said to the other “I am the father of your son” what were they?
    Spell broken down ditches in three letters?
    What is it we all possess but few hold it?
    Brown I am though much admired many horses have I tired, tire a horse and worry a man tell me this riddle if you can?
    Why is a dead hen better than a live?
    What two things start at the root and grows down?
    Why are corn and potatoes like Indian idols?
    Useful, useless instrument, from once it was bought it was never lent the one that owns it does not know it and the one that knows it does not own it?
    Why is the letter V in civility like
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nano Corcoran
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annaghcarthy, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Patrick Corcoran
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Address
    Annaghcarthy, Co. Sligo