School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- Riddle me riddle rut and the two ends shut.
An [?]A little white house full of food no windows no door and still would not let me in.
An egg.If a white man and two black men were in a car and the two black men ate the white man what was the number of the car?
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- Collector
- Edward Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Martin Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Where was Moses when he was smoking his pipe.
Behind it.Where was Moses when the candle went out
In the dark.What is it the train has dont want and still cannot go without it.
The noise.If Ireland was the capital of England and England the capital of Ireland and if a man committed suicide in Belfast where would he be tried.
He couldn't be tried and where when he would commit suicide when he would be dead.Which is a black hen or a white hen the cutest
A black hen because a black hen can lay a white egg and a white hen cannot lay a black one.A lorry of people passed over a bridge and there wasn't a single one in it.
Because they were all married.What is the biggest bridge in the world.
The rainbow.(continues on next page)
