School: Kilbride (roll number 11793)
- Location:
- Cill Bhríde, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Ní Mháirtín
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- (continued from previous page)As round as an apple, as flat as a pan. On one side a woman, on the other a man - A penny
In deer park there is a deer, his horns are both bright and clear. He has no legs, no bones but still he is living there alone. A snail.
Told by Michael Gillie from his father. Patrick Gillie Age 47 - farmer Clontrim Trim
- Its deep and its dark and its down by the bank and its fit for any young lord - A Grave.
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup and all the King's horses would not draw it up. A Well
Riddle me riddle me anty o, my father gave me seed to sow. The seeds were black and the ground was white riddle me that and I'll give you my pipe - A Newspaper.
Tony Sherry aged 11 years. Related to him by his father.
46 yrs - farmer Stephen Sherry, Yellow Walls Trim - Riddles
If a wasp lit on a nettle which would the wasp sting the nettel or the nettel sting the wasp? - Neither
As I was going to the fair of Rathmines I met nine tinkers and theirs wives every tinker had nine sacks every sack had nine cats every cat had nine kittens. How many were going to the fair. One(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Goggins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Tulach Chonóg, Co. Meath
- Informant
- William Goggins
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Tulach Chonóg, Co. Meath
