School: Clonmore, Teampoll Mór (roll number 12541)

Location:
Clonmore, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Siobhán, Bean Uí Allmhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 009

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 009

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  1. 1. It is up the hill and down the hill and still it is on top of the hill.
    The road.
    2. What it is that has ups and downs and wears out boots but never has any boots to wear itself.
    A Football.
    3. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you cannot guess that.
    A pipe.
    4. Up chip cherry down chip cherry all the men in County Derry could not climb up chip cherry? Smoke.
    5. As green as grass and grass it isn't as red as blood and blood it isn't, as black as ink and ink it isn't?
    A blackberry
    6. Why is a dog's tail like the pit of a tree? Because it is farthest from the bark.
    7. As round as an apple as flat as a pan the whole of a woman, the head of a man? A penny.
    8. By experience I can tell that water made my belly swell? A goose boiling in a pot.
    9. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
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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
    Sheila Leahy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromard Beg, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Michael Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromard Beg, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Michael Leahy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromard Beg, Co. Tipperary