School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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- Martin Murray, Rathpeak, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.1. Riddle Riddle row, it sits like a bo, it has teeth like a cat and if your a good scholar you will riddle me that? (Briar)
2. I have a knife of ivory it is pointed with misery it would kill a bull and slane a bear and conquer all the birds in the air? (Hunger.)
3. Long thing Legless it comes to the door footless as a woman within keep in your hen I am not afraid of your dog (a worm)
4. A round body and a square scull always swallowing and never full? (A chimney.)
5. It is deep a tis; it is dam a tis; it is green round the bank a tis and it is fit for a lord or Lady. (a grave.)
6. Why dos'nt a clock strick thirteen? (Because it has'nt the face to do so.)
7. Why dos'nt black sheep eat as much as white sheep? (Because there is more white sheep than black ones.)
8. As white as a Lilly as red as a rose The longor it stands the shorter it grows.(a cande.)
9. Why does a hen pick a pot. (Because she cant lick it.)
- Informant
- Martin Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
