School: Béal Átha Feorainne (B.) (roll number 1866)

Location:
Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M.S. Ó Ceallaigh
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    14.
    down. Smoke.
    As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman and the half of a man. A penny.
    Long legs crooked the one little head and no eyes. A tongs.
    Green coat outside, white coat inside and paddling in the water.
    A bullrush.
    As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry could not pull it up. A well of water. What is this that goes up the stairs black and white and comes down red all over. A Newspaper. Two white men and a black man went driving in a car. The two white men eat the black man. What was
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Muckloon, Co. Galway