School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 105
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- 18-1-38 Riddles
As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb over a church and tables & all.
The sun
What is full and holds more.
A pot when it is full of potatoes and you pore water in.
What goes over the ground and over the ground and never tips the ground.
A pipe in a miners pocket.
It went up stairs white and come down red.
A paper.
I went up the road and carried the road on my back.
A ladder.
North east south west and a hundred teeth and no eyes.
A briar.
What runs down the hill and could not get up.
Water
I went up the hill of wonder I say twenty four bull dogs touring the hill asunder.#A harrow.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
