School: Inch Island
- Location:
- Carrickanee, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Mac Fhinn
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Local Song (continued)
“It was in the month of August”
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- Pupil Hugh Mac Ginley
Told by Patrick Green age 81
Castlequarter, Inch Island
Riddles
Q: Genny Co-rottle she sits in her bottle with her red pettiecoat and her white nose.
What is that?
Ans: A candle
Q: I had a wee poppet. it sat in my pocket. It never ate corn not hay. Up came a swaddle and stole my best poppet away. What is that?
Ans: A watch.
q: The wind blew west and west sailed we. Our sheet been full how could that be.
What is that .(continues on next page) - Collector
- Hugh Mac Ginley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Susan Mc Ginley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castlequarter, Co. Donegal
