School: Belcarra (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Ballycarra, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Heireamhóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0094, Page 258
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- Riddle, Riddle, Ree what riddle must it be; through a rig, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a miller's wrapper through a bag of pepper through a sheep's joint bone such a riddle was never known.
A moth.Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more followed that six, seven, ten, eleven, three, two how many is that.
Five sheep.As I went out a boreen I met my aunt Noreen she had iron toes a silver nose and dear know's she would frighten the crows.
A gun.Tink, tank under the bank ten drawing four.
A woman milking a cow. A house-ful a room-ful and I could not get a spoon-ful.
A room full of smoke. Its in its out its under the roof of the house.
A window. Deep down in the earth is the place of my birth but your homes I make bright.
Coal.A bridge across a lake without a stick or stone.
Ice on a lake.
- Collector
- John Mac Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlassa, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs M. Mc Donnell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
