School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)

Location:
Dangan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 216

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    The bush.
    What is always behind time?
    The Clock.
    What stands still, wags its tail and runs?
    A pump.
    Patches upon patches without any stitches?
    A head of cabbage
    What is black and white and read all over?
    The newspaper.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. When is coffee like mud?
    When it is ground.
    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you will never guess that?
    A pipe.
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball; can climb the church; over steeple and all?
    The sun.
    As I went up Tara Hill, Tara Hill was shaking and I
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ellen Nugent
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Christopher Nugent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Umberstown Great, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mary Nugent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Umberstown Great, Co. Meath