School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- An Choill Mhór, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)The more you take out of it the bigger it gets, Ans - A hole
As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the road like hailstones, Ans- A magpie
Supplied by Francis McLoughlin, Killadiskert 55years.
Written but Tessie McLoughlin, Killadiskert
Riddles
“I went up the road and down the road and carried the road...”
I went up the road and down the road and carried the road on my back with me , Answer = A ladder
Why do you go to bed, Ans = because the bed won’t come to me.
How many hairs in a cats tail, Ans = There is none in it they they are all on it.
Why does a hen cross the road, Ans = To get to the other side.
Round the house and round the house and peeped in every hole, Ans = The sun.
What is it that sleeps with its head in his eyes, Ans = A spanchil round a cows neck.
Longbody legless came to the door stepless and told the woman of the house keep in her ducks that he would not fear her dog, Ans = A snail.
Supplied by John McPartlan, Derinvona, 50years
Written by Brigid Corristine, Killadiskert - Collector
- Brigid Corristine
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill an Dísirt, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- John Mc Partlan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Doirín Mhóna Uachtarach, Co. Liatroma
