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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

Location:
Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 243

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  1. Folklore - Riddles (continued)

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    Why does a hen pick a pot
    (Because she cannot lick it )
    Cork and Derry, London-Derry spell that without a "K"
    (That)
    It's under the coals and over the coals and yet never touches the coals.
    (A cake in an oven)
    As round as an oven as flat as a pan, sometimes a woman and sometimes a man.
    (A penny)
    It's as long as my finger as white as snow the longer you pull it the shorter it grows.
    (A cigarette )
    It opens like a barn door and shuts like a trap you would think of many a thing before you'd
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilvine, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilvine, Co. Mayo