School: Carn an Ríogh (roll number 11619)
- Location:
- Carrownree, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Énrí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0462
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- (continued from previous page)What is the difference between an Irishman on a bleak mountain-top or a Scotchman?
One is kilt with the cowled and the other is cowled with the kilt
What is the smallest bridge in the world?
The bridge of your nose.
What is that you break by even naming it.
Silence.
- A very old man named Peter Gallagher living in Carnaree told me many riddles that he heard during his school-days in this locality. Some of these riddles are:
What is that which occurs twice in a moment and not in a thousand years?
The letter M
Unable to think, unable to speak, yet tells the truth to all the world?
A true balance or pair of scales.
When has a man four hands?
When he doubles his fists.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Caitlín Ní Dáithí
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownree, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Peter Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownree, Co. Sligo
