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School: Gráig na Gréine (roll number 12819)

Location:
Graignagreana, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Anna Ní Shiocfhradha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0469, Page 006

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    1 As white as milk and as black as silk and it hops on the ground like hailstone.
    A magpie
    2 As I went up a slippery rock I met my aunty Mary. She had timber toes and iron nose and upon my word she would frighten the crows.
    A gun.
    3 As I went down into the garden one day. I met my uncle Thady I cut off his head and brought it home and left his body easy.
    A head of cabbage.
    4 The leaper of the ditch and the cropper of the corn the little brown cow with two leather horns.
    A hare
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán O Cathasaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graignagreana, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Domhnall Ua Cathasaig
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graignagreana, Co. Kerry