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School: Ráth na mBeach (roll number 17129)

Location:
Rathnamagh, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
R. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 380

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    Riddles
    In a garden there was laid a beautiful maid, as light and as fair as the morning, the first hour of her life she became a wife and died before she was born
    Eve
    It goes round the house and round the house and never gets into the house
    A nail in your shoe
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan half a woman and half a man
    A penny
    It goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets in the wood
    The bark of a tree
    King-Gcora had a ship an on the ship his daughter sat an I am not bound to tell her name an that three times I have said it plain
    Ann
    Whats full and holds more
    A pot of potatoes when you pour water in
    Four feet a head and a foot
    A bed
    As I went out the gap I saw a man with four (?) dogs routing the ground asunder
    A (?)
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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
    Sile Ní Gáinley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockaskeehaun, Co. Mayo