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School: Moneymohill, Shanagolden (roll number 8395)

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Moneymohill, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire Ní Liain
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    In a garden of daises a beautiful maiden, as bright as the sunshine in morning, the first day of her life, she was made a wife, and she died before she was born?
    Eve
    The wall outside as white as milk, the skin inside as soft as silk, a golden apple doth appear, behind a wall of crystal clear, no doors there are to this strong hold, yet thieves break in and steel the gold?
    An egg.
    When is a gander called a goose?
    When he is boiling in the pot.
    If I went up on top of a hill, where would I get down?
    Under a goose’s wing.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    M. A. Lane
    Address
    Moneymohill, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Maurice Danaher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moyreen, Co. Limerick