School: Cill Tormóir (Kiltormer) (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Kiltormer, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Muineacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0056, Page 0351
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- RiddlesAs I went out a slobbery gap I met my Uncle Davy. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body easy.
Answer - A bottle of Whisky.A kitchen full a room full and never catch a spoonful.
Answer - Smoke.As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the king's horses could not draw it up.
Answer - A well.A hopper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little brown cow and two leather horns.
Answer - A goat.Here I sit and far I see,
A blackbird's nest on a holly tree,
It fights the bull and fights the bear,
And conquers all the birds in the air.
Answer - Hunger.As I walked out, as I looked in,
And out of the dead the life did spring,
Six were set and seven went free,
Riddle me that or hanged I will be.
Answer - A wren's nest in a man's skull under a tombstone.
- Collector
- Patrick Greaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonlahan (Eyre), Co. Galway
