School: Gormanstown, Árd Fhíonáin (roll number 5615)
- Location:
- Gormanstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Peadar de Mhóiréis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 478
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- (continued from previous page)Riddles
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood. Answer, the bark of a tree
As round as a marble
As plump as a ball
can climb over churches
steeple and all.
Answer, The sun
What is full and yet holds more ?
Answer,. A pot of potatoes.
Ink Ank undrt the bank
ten drawing four. Answer. A man milking a cow.
Head like a thimble
tail like a rat
You may guess for ever
But you cannot guess that.
Answer. A pipe(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs March
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gormanstown, Co. Tipperary
