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School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)

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The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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  1. Riddles

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolhill, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    James Cullen
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Coolhill, Co. Kilkenny

  2. Riddles

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    1. A man without 'eyes' saw apples on a tree. He took no apples off, or no apples there left he.
    A man with one eye saw two apples on a tree; he took one apple off, and left one apple on.
    2. As I looked over a garden wall I saw two dead men fighting. Two cripples were running for the guards, and
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