School: Foynes (C.) (roll number 2814)

Location:
Foynes, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Eithne Ní Mhaidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0483, Page 068

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  1. Q. As black as ink as white as snow and hops in the road like hail stones
    A. Magpie
    Q. Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four
    A. Woman milking a cow
    Q. How many wells would make a river
    A. One if it was big enough
    Q. It has neither flesh fish nor bone but still it has five fingers
    A. Glove
    Q. What is it that never was nor never will be
    A. mouse's nest in a cat's ear
    Q. There is a little house and a mouse could not fit in it all the men in the world could not count all the windows in it
    A. Thimble
    Q. What is the smallest room in the world
    A. mushroom
    Q. There is a house and in that house there is a dresser and in the dresser there is a cup and in that
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Caitlín Ní Madagaín
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs K. Madigan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Ballynash, Co. Limerick