School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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Riddles
There is a table in my fathers garden. It is not made of oak ash holly or yew. Nor of any wood that ever grew. What is it?
(a vegetable)
Deep it is, damp it is
Fit for any man it is.
What is it?
(The grave)
The more you take from it The bigger it grows. Name it?
(A hole)
As I went through a field of wheat I found something I could eat.
It was neither fish, flesh nor bones. I kept it till it could walk alone. What is it?
(an egg)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon
