School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)

Location:
Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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    A magpie.
    Under fire and over fire never touches fire.
    A cake baking in an oven.
    Four bottles on the top of the hill.
    Their heads turned down and they can not spill.
    A cows paps.
    I have four sisters tall and thin.
    They are in and out around about they are in the same position still
    A pair of knitting pins.
    A hard working father, a lazy old mother, twelve little children and they all the same colour.
    A clock.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. How many wells would make a river?
    One if it was big enough.
    It is black, it is white and it is read all over?
    A news paper.
    Two black men and a white man went into a motor car; the two black men ate the white man what was the number
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Collector
    Tim J. Casey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs J. Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    53
    Address
    Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork