School: Inistioge (C.) (roll number 5319)

Location:
Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máire de Róiste
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 253

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    they cut on stones. They let the Mermaid off in the river where they caught it.
    The Moat was built by the Danes to protect the village in days gone by. The Moat is built on a hill in the middle of the village.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. It is black and white and read all over?
    A paper.
    If it took a yard and a half to make a coat what would you take to make a trouser?
    A tailor.
    When would you cut a black thorn stick?
    When you see it.
    What goes up the ladder with its head down?
    Studs in a mans boot.
    What is neither right nor fair?
    A black mans left foot.
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan the whole of a woman and half of a man?
    A penny.
    What is always living and yet never five months old?
    The moon.
    A head like a timbel a tail like a rat you can guess for ever but you will never guess that?
    A pipe.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr A. Hanrahan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 60
    Address
    Brittas, Co. Kilkenny