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School: Ceis Carraigín (roll number 13849)

Location:
Keshcarrigan, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Mag Fhionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 048

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    9. Everyone has it and so has the fire?
    A name.
    10. Put out your hand and you will see what never was or never will be?
    That your thumb is not as long as the other fingers.
    11. What part of the cow goes into the byre first?
    Her breath.
    12. Brought to the table, cut, divided round but never eaten?
    A pack of cards.
    13. A room full, and a room full, and a room full, and cannot catch a spoonful.
    Smoke.
    14. Black and white, and read all over?
    Paper.
    15. As I went out on yonder gap I met my uncle Dan. I cut off his head, and sucked his blood and left him lying easy?
    Blackberry.
    16. I went into the wood to get brosna
    I neither has ash, oak, or elm but I had Brosna?
    I had a dog called Brosna.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Conn O' Boy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumingna, Co. Leitrim