School: Tráigh Phraisce (C.) (roll number 5566)

Location:
Trafrask, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Chonghaile
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  1. Ten mens length ten mens strength a little boy picked it up and ran away with it.
    A rope.
    As I went in my fathers hall I heard a loud and deadly call a bird of flesh a head of corn and such a thing was never born.
    A cock crowing.
    Two little girls dressed in white one got the fever and died last night.
    A candle.
    Little red Gandy with his little red nose the longer he lives the quicker he goes.
    A candle.
    As round as a basin as deep as a well and all the men in Ireland couldn't fill it up.
    - A strainer.
    'Tis black and white and read all over.
    The newspaper.
    There is a little white house full of red beef there is no door to let me in to eat.
    An egg
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Áine T. Ní Shúilleabháin
    Gender
    Female