School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Baile an Gharrdha (roll number 15334)

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   A Watch.
   15 What walks with its head down.
   Nails in your shoes.
   16 Up the road down the road and I carrying the road on my back.
   A ladder
   17 If I built a wall from here to Donegal what height would it be.
   The height of nonsense.
   18 What's full and holds more.
   A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
   19 Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat. You may guess for ever but you'll never guess that
   A pipe.
   20 What turns but does not move.
   Milk.
   21 Why does a hen pick a pot.
   Because she can't lick it
   22 What pat of a cow go over the ditch the first.
   Her breath
   23 What goes around the house all day and sleeps in the corner at night.
   A brush
   24 What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
   A hole
   25 What is it that a dead man eats and if a

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máighréad Ní Mheachair

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Ballintaggart, Co. Tipperary