School: Baile an Lóin Tighe (Ballinlonty) (roll number 1579)

Location:
Ballinlonty, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Áine Ruiséall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 073

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  1. As black as ink and ink it isn't, as white as milk and milk it isn't and it hops on the ground like hailstones? a magpie.
    A man without eyes saw plums on a tree he neither took plums nor left plums where must the plums be? one on the tree and one in his hand.
    There was a man of Adam's race.He had no certain dwelling place. Neither in heaven nor in hell.Nor any place where humans dwell.Neither in water nor fire. Nor any place where birds retire. home now I pray you tell where this wondrous man did dwell? Jonas in the whales belly.
    why does a hen cross a road?
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katty Patterson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilfithmone, Co. Tipperary