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School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)

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Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
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    and round the wood and never gets into the wood. The bark of a tree.
    What are you always doing. Growing older.
    As I was going along a garden of wheat I picked up some nice thing to eat, it had neither life, flesh or bone, what is that. An egg.
    What is it which a car has, a car doesn't want, but still it cant go without it. Noise.
    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
    Michael Quinlan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Commaun More, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Anne Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Commaun More, Co. Tipperary