School: Muclagh, Aughrim
- Location:
- Mucklagh, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhuibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0921, Page 101
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- Local Riddles
What is the half of the moon like?
Answer the other half
As green as grass but not grass as red as blood but not blood as black as ink but not ink?
Answer A blackberry
Riddle me riddle me row teeth like a cat and bends like a bow?
Answer A saw
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat (w) you may guess for ever but you wouldnt guess that?
Answer A pipe
Midy Nody round body three feet and a wooden hat?
Answer A pot
It is the beginning of eternity tis the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every place?
Answer The letter E
It is a black as jet and as white as snow and it hops on the road like hailstones?
Answer A magpie
I have a little house and a mouse could not sit in it and all the men in the town could not count the windows in it?
Answer a thimble(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygobban, Co. Wicklow
