School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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- Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes?
Answer:- a tongs.
As black as ink, as white as milk and it hops on the road like hailstone?
Answer:- a magpie.
Jack's father was Paddy's brother, what relation had Jack's father to Paddy's mother?
Answer:- He was her son.
Though a rock, through a reel, through a new spinning wheel, through a horse's skin and bone; that is the riddle that is never known?
Answer:- thunder.
It is in the rock but not in the stone,
'tis in the marrow but not in the bone,
'tis in the brain but not in the head,
'tis in the bolster but not in the bed,
Answer:- the letter R(continues on next page) - Collector
- Seán Ó Croínín
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Seán Ó Conaill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Shanbally, Co. Cork
