School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 111
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- 25-1-38 Riddles
What is full of holes and still holds water.
A sponge.
Look at me and I am everybody scratch my back and I am nobody.
A mirror.
Through a rock, through a rell, through an old spinning wheel, through a box of pepper, through a mill of copper, through a young sheeps shank bones such a riddle was never known.
Thunder and lighting.
As I went up the hill of wonder I met twenty four bull dogs taring the hill a sunder.
A harrow.
When is a clock hungry.
When it is going to eight a clock.
If a man takes a half an hour to wash himself what would he take to dry himself.
A towl.
Why does a hen pick a pot.
Because she could not lick it.
Why does a hen cross a road.
To get to the other side.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Hoban
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathgarvan or Clifden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Denny Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Rathgarvan or Clifden, Co. Kilkenny
