School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- Q. Riddle riddle row, it sits like a bow it has teeth like a cat and if you're a good scholar you will riddle me that
A. A briar.
Q. I have a knife of ivory it is pointed with misery it would kill a bull and slan a bear and conquer all the birds in the air.
A. Hunger.
Q. Long thing legless it comes to the door footless a woman within keep in your hen I am not afraid of your dog?
A. A worm
Q. A round body and a square scull always swallowing and never full.
A. A chimney.
Q. It is deep, it is, it is, damp it is, it is green round the bank it is, and fit for a Lord or a lady.
A. A grave.
Q. Why doesn't a clock strike thirdteen
A. Because it hasn't the face to do so.
Q. Why doesn't black sheep eat as much as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patrick Joseph Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
