School: Baile Giolla tSionáin (B.), An Gleann (roll number 11307)

Location:
Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Cathasaigh
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  1. 1. As round as a marble as flat as a pan all a woman and half a man? (A penny).
    2. What is like a half-penny? (Another one).
    3. A beautiful maid in a garden was laid as fresh and as fair as the morning. She was made a bride the first day of her life and died before she was born? (Eve).
    4. At what side of a jug is the handle? (The Outside).
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joe Hogan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kinard, Co. Limerick