School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cáinte
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 019
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Tomhais (continued)
“Riddle riddle ree such a riddle couldn't be, through a rock, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a miller hopper, through a bag of pepper, through an old sheep skinning bone riddle me that and leave me alone.”
(continued from previous page)As I walked out as I walked in I met death that life was in I took six and the seventh got away if you riddle me that you can hang me to-day.
A robins nest is a dead mans skull when the six young ones were caught and the mother got away.
Tomhais
“There's a lovely maid in the garden, as fresh as the flowers in morning.”
There's a lovely maid in the garden,
As fresh as the flowers in morning,
She was made a wife the first hour of her life,
And died before she was born?
Answer: Eve(continues on next page) - Collector
- John O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny