School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Béal an Dá Chab, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 028
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- 1.
The man who made it never wore it, and the man who wore it never saw it? A coffin.
2.
Twenty four white horses tied in a stall, up comes a red one and licks them all? Your teeth and your tongue.
3.
What were the three things that were never found? A shoe for the foot of the mountain. A sheet for the bed of the ocean. A tooth for the mouth of the river.
4.
What is it that has no legs, no head, not nothing, and yet runs? Wather.
5.
What is it that goes under the water, and over the water, and never tips the water? An egg in a duck's belly.
- Collector
- John Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Goirtín Rua, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Jack Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Goirtín Rua, Co. Chorcaí
