School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0036
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- The following riddles were told to Peggy Kelly by her father Thomas Kelly Ranamackan Tynagh Loughrea. His age is 60 years.
How many potatoes would it take to make a cake of boxty? One, it is were big enough.
Why does a hen pick a pot? Because she can't lick it.
There's a man in the mountain, a keeper of game, I'll give you a shilling to spell me his name, spell it out front-ways, spell it out back-ways, back-ways or front-ways you'll find it the same? Bob.
What goes bitting, biting, bit never swallows The scissors
Four standards, four diddle-danders, two lookers, two crookers, a licker and a swisher? A cow.
Riddle-me, riddle-me Randy Bow, my father gave me seed to sow, the seed was black and the gound was white, riddle me that, and I'll give you a clay pipe? Ink and paper. What crosses the lough, and darkens the water? A cloud.
There's a little brown cow, she's tied to the wall, she'd eat all the hay, from this to Donegal? The fire.
What goes round the house and round the house and drags its puddings after?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ranamackan, Co. Galway
