School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)

Location:
Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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  1. Middy Noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat
    Answer - A pot
    Headed like a thimble tail like a rat you may guess for ever but you would never guess that
    Answer - A pipe
    Around the wood around the wood but never goes into the wood
    Answer - A fence
    Twenty four white bullocks fighting in a hall one big red one comes up and mixes in them all
    Answer = Your tongue and teeth
    As I went out a slippery gap I met a man with a small red hat. He had iron heels and timber nose and upon my word he would frighten the crows.
    Answer = A gun
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Cashin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cashel, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Cashin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cashel, Co. Tipperary