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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]
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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
    Denis Cronin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Reaboy, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Michael Cronin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Address
    Reaboy, Co. Kerry