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School: Lowtown (B.), Galbally

Location:
Galbally, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0513, Page 070

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    Patch upon patch.
    Without any stitches!
    Riddle me that
    And I will buy you a new pair of breeches?
    A head of cabbage.
    What makes more noise than a pig at a gate? Two pigs.
    As round as an apple
    As plump as a ball,
    Can climb the church
    Over steeple and all? The sun.
    What goes away between two hills and comes home between two waters?
    A man fetching water in two pail.
    What is full and holds more?
    A pot of potatoes.
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mícheál Ó Foghludha
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Foley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycrana, Co. Tipperary