School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

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   As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Tady. I cut off his head and left his body easy?
   (A head of cabbage)
   Black and white and “read” all over?
   (A Newspaper)
   Genny red petty coat, Genny red nose, the longer she lives, the shorter she grows.
   (A candle)
   A little house and a mouse would not fit in it and all the men in town could not count how many windows in it.
   (A thimble)
   Long legs crooked thighs a little head and no eyes.
   (A tongs)

   
   Collected by: - Máire Ní Nialláin, Roughan
   Told by :- Edward Neylon, Roughan (her father)
   (52 years)

   

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   I you, went up a hill on a gooses back where would you get down? (Under her wings) Why does a hen pick the pot? (Because she cannot lick it) A stamp of suet to a tree’s root and not a bone going through it. (A snail)

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seósamh Ó Coileáin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Nooan, Co. Clare

   Informant

   James Callinan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Address

   Crossard, Co. Clare