School: Clareen, Birr

Location:
Clareen, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
S. Ó Néill
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  1. Linguistic
    Old fisherman Andy,
    I met him one day
    He asked me how many red strawberries
    grew in the say (sea)
    I made him an answer
    As well as I could
    As many red herrings as grew in the wood.
    There is a temple supported by one single pillar - the pillar is surrounded by twelve towns - each town has twenty eight props - beside each prop are two women - one white and other black. What is the temple?
    The temple is the world, the pillar the year, the twelve towns the months, the twenty eight props the days and the two women day and night.
    What part of a cow goes into the house first?
    Her breath.
    Long and narrow, deaf and dumb. Has no feet but yet can run.
    A river.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
      2. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English