School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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Riddle. It is black as ink and as white as milk and it hops on the road like hailstones.
Answer. A magpie
Riddle. What is it that the more you cut off it the longer you make it.
Answer. A grave.
Riddle. The man that made it did not want it. The man that bought it never used it, and the man that used it never knew anything about it.
Answer. A coffin
- Collector
- Stephen Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballykelly, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr John Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballykelly, Co. Tipperary
