School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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  1. What key is the hardest to turn?
    (A donkey)
    If a man fell accidentally what would he fall against?
    (His will.)
    What three things cannot be found?
    (A shoe for the foot of a mountain, a towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean.)
    Headed like thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you couldnot guess that?
    (A pipe)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
    (A hole)

    Collected by: - Pádraig Ó Faoileáin, Lemeneigh
    Told by: - (Mrs) Ellen Whelan, Lemeneigh, (his grandmother)
    (80 years)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pádraig Ó Faoláin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Leamaneh South, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen Whelan
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Leamaneh South, Co. Clare