School: Tuairín Chathail (B.) (roll number 10392)
- Location:
- Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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- (The Moonlighters)Riddles"The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it" [A Coffin]"A man in manchester sent home to his sister a bottomless vessel for holding raw meat" [A ring]"As round as a marble as deep as a pail and it will never screech until it is caught by the tail" [A Bell]
It grows in the wood it sounds in the town it earns a Shilling and many a crown [A Fiddle"]"It is as round as a marble as flat as a pan half a woman and all a man" [A Penny]"I have a little house and a mouse could not live in it and all the men in town could not count how many windows in it" [A Thimble]"I have a little house and it is full of meat and has no doors or windows to let me into eat" [An Egg]"Fond legs crooked tyes a small head an no eyes" [A Tongs](continues on next page)- Collector
- Denis Cronin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Reaboy, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Cronin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Reaboy, Co. Kerry