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School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 279

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Tomhaiseanna

As round as a marble as flat as a pan, the head of a woman and the whole of a man?
(A penny)
Through rag, through reed, through an old spinning wheel, through a horses shin bone there is no riddle ever known?
(Lightning)
As I went up to Dungannon, I saw a man hanging, I sucked his blood and left his bones hanging?
(A blackberry)


Collected by:- Séamus Ó Diolúin Dromoher
Told by: - John Callinan. Crossard.
(65 Years)

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Collector
Séamus Ó Diolúin
Gender
male
Address
Drummoher, Co. Clare
Informant
John Callinan
Gender
male
Age
65
Address
Crossard, Co. Clare
Language
English

Tomhaiseanna

How many sides to a pot?
(Two – inside and outside)
Twenty-four white cows tied in a stall the red cow came and licked them all?
(Your tongue and teeth)
A ribbon of red, a ribbon of green the king could not guess it or neither the queen, what is it?
(A holly-bush)
Around, around the rocks, the ragged rascal ran
if you tell me how many “rs” in that I’ll

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