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School: Killurney, Cluain Meala

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Killurney, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máire de Brún
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    half a man?
    A. A penny
    Q. It opens like a barn door and shuts like a trap a many a riddle you can think of before you think of that.
    A. A scissors.
    Q. Ink ank under the bank ten drawing four.
    A. A person milking a cow.
    Q. As I went out a slippery gap. I met my uncle Davey. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body easy.
    A. A Bottle of whiskey.
    Q. What is thats greater than God worse than the and if you eat it you will die?
    A. Nothing.
    Q. There were a man one time who
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen Harvey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    48
    Address
    Ballyknockane, Co. Tipperary