School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)

Location:
Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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  1. It has a bed and never sleeps in it = "river"
    What can you knit without knitting needles = "eyebrows"
    Why does a cow look over the ditch = "she cannot look under it"
    A little white and round house and it is full of meat but has no doors or windows to let me it to eat – "egg."
    What has a mouth and no tongue = "river'
    What has a trunk and no ribs = "tree"
    Blak and white and read all over = "paper."
    As black as ink and as white as snow and hop's on the road like hail stone = "mag"
    Spell pussy in three letter's = "cat"
    When is a knife rude - when "it is cutting a cake"
    Up the ladder and all there heads down = "nails in your shoe".
    What goes to make a pair of shoes = "two shoes"
    Which is the graey goose or the whit goose is the gander = "any of them"
    It is ["a" struck out] in the house and can not take a spoon full of it = "smoke'
    Why does a hen run [struck out and enclosed in parentheses: "acroos"] across the road = "to get to the other side."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lizzie Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloggarnagh, Co. Roscommon