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School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

Location:
Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 329

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    If an Irish man had a peacock and if he laid an egg in an English man's field, which of them would own the egg.
    A peacock lays no eggs
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    What has a neck and a body and nothing else
    A bottle
    What is a lay always looking for and never hopes to find
    A hole in her stocking
    Whey does a hen cross the road
    To go to the other side
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    As I went out a garden gap I met Dick with a red cap a stick in his hand a stone in this throat riddle me that and I will give you a groat - a cherry
    If a tongs and poker cost sixpence what would a ton of coal amount to - ashes
    As I went up a hill I saw the world's wonder, twenety-four bull dogs tearing the hill asunder
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ned Bargary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilfeakle, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Bargary
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    38
    Address
    Kilfeakle, Co. Tipperary