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School: Drom na Gráinsighe (roll number 13280)

Location:
Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seán Mac Giolla Luaithrinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 170

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    When he has his fists closed
    A little house on the top of a hill and it open and closes very often?
    Your eye
    When an ass is facing the north how is his tail pointed?
    Down
    A little wood and a little wire and a little house without a fire?
    A cage
    A flat room and noone can fit in it and you could not count all the doors in it?
    A mushroom
    Patch upon patch without any stitch riddle me that and I buy a pair of breeches?
    A head of cabbage
    If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight how many barrel of potatoes in a crib of turf
    No answer.
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    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
    Kathleen Lavin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Michael Lavin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo