School: Sraith, Magh Sheasta

Location:
Sragh, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Gormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 057

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Mac Craith
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mountrivers, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Seán Mac Craith
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86
    Address
    Mountrivers, Co. Clare
  2. 'Tis white and red and "sparible" green,
    The king cannot get at it no more than the queen?
    A rainbow.
    Over water and under water, and can't touch the water? A woman going over a bridge with a bucket of water on her head.
    I have a white horse and a red house and
    You must break the white to go into the red house? An egg.
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