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School: Killashandra

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Killashandra, Co. Cavan
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P. Ó Leannáin
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    Riddles
    1. What is full and can hold more?
    A pot of potatoes.
    2. Black I am though much admired men and horses I have tired gold and silver I have cost and in the manure-heap I am lost.
    Coal
    3. I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse but there are more windows on it than in the Lord Mayor's house.
    A thimble.
    4. Little wood little wire little house without a fire?
    A bird's cage.
    Got from: - John Brady,
    Dernacross.
    Sean Magee.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sean Magee
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Brady
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynacross, Co. Cavan