School: Tír na Néill (roll number 3845)

Location:
Tirnaneill, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
M. Mc Cague
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    the town and earns his master many a pound. A Fiddle.
    If your mother's sister isn't your aunt, what relation is she to you. Your mother.
    What has twenty legs and can't stand.
    Ten pains of trousers.
    Spell a broken down hedge in three letters. Gap.
    What has a tongue and can't talk.
    Your boot.
    20th June 1938
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Crozier Moffett
    Gender
    Male