School: Carn (roll number 12537)
- Location:
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 139
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- The following are riddles which I have collected from some of the old people who live in my district with the answers.
No.1. As I went up the boreen I met my Auntie Noreen I took off her head and drank her blood and left her body lying easy.
" A bottke of whiskey."
No.2. Ink ank, down the bank ten drawing four. " A person milking a cow."
No.3. Minny noddy round body, three feet and a wooden hat. " A pot."
No.4. A leaper of ditches a tripper of thorns a brown little breeches and two leather horns. "A hare."
No.5. Its deep and its damp and it's green o'er the bank and it's fit for a Lord or a King. " A grave."
No.6. It flies high, it flies low, it wears shoes and has none. " A football."
No.7. It's once in a mountain but it's not in a hill, it's twice in moment but it's not in twenty years. "The letter m."(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Cawley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
