School: Árd Ailinne (Mount Allen) (roll number 13143)
- Location:
- Mountallen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Loingsigh
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Riddles
If a tone of coal cost two pound and a cut of colm two shillings what would it all come to?
Answer ="Ashes."
What is neither inside or outside but still it is under the roof of the house?
Answer = A Window.
Two legs sitting on three legs with one leg in his lap. Up comes four legs snaps up one leg. Up jumps two legs takes up three legs hits four legs and gets his one leg back.
Answer = A man, stool, dog, bone.
Little thing, little thing less than a coal has more windows than the kings house.
Answer = A Thimble.
What lives when it eats and dies when it drinks?
Answer = A Fire.
