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School: Grangemocler (C.) Carrick-on-Suir (roll number 7596)

Location:
Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Mrs Brigid Feehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 066

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    Q There is a man of Adams race, he has a certain dwelling place.
    He is neither fish, flesh, feather, nor bone.
    And in Gilman's Park, he walks alone!
    A The man in the moon.
    Q At the Gurraghmore steeple, there lived three Christian people, they were neither men, women or children. Who were they?
    A A man, a woman, and a child
    Q As I walked out as I walked in. I saw the dead outside and the live within, four I caught, and one got free, riddle me that and hung I'll be?
    A A nest of birds in a dead
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    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
    Alice Power
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Heffernan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Garrymorris, Co. Tipperary