School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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- 1. The Queen of Morocco built a ship an in that ship her daughter sat. An I'd be blamed if I told her name, and twice in that riddle I told the same.
Answer Ann.
2. As I was going to the fair at Mines. I met nine tinkers and their wives. Each wife had a wallet, each wallet had a cat, each cat had nine kittens.
Tinkers, wives, cats and kittens. How many was going to the fair at Mines.
(Answer One.)
3. As I went up the Thether hill, I felt the Thether hill shaking. As I looked over and hether, I saw two blackbirds scraping.
Answer. A man harrowing.
- Collector
- Betty Weston
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Weston
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Forester
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
