School: Brosna (B.) (roll number 13018)
- Location:
- Brosna, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Aonghus Ó Laochdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 348
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- 1. Long legs,crooked thighs,small head no eyes.-a tongue
2. All patches,no stitches,riddle me that and I will give you my brishes.-a head of cabbage.
3. As round as a bowl, as deep as a cup and all the men in Kerry couldn't take it up.- a well
4. As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops in the road like hailstone.- a mag-pie
5. It goes around the house and stops at the door.- light
6. It goes in the window and out the door.- a letter
7. What turns without moving- milk
8. Up the hill, down the hill and yet stands still.- the hill
9. I have a little house and a mouse can't live in it, all the men in town couldn't count all the windows in it.- a thimble
10. It is here and there and everywhere, it is over in top of Killarney, it takes a bite as big as a horse but never swallows it after- a leythe.
11. What is always behind time?- the back of a clock
12. It opens like a barn door, shuts like trap, you will think of many riddles before you think of that.- your mouth
13. Long and humpy, dull and dumpy, has no legs and can run.-the river(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brosna, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Ger Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Glantane, Co. Kerry
