School: Carrigans (C.)
- Location:
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 140
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- (continued from previous page)A round house thatched, a red door case, the hounds in view and the hare in chase?
Answer: The head, mouth, teeth and tongue.
The king of Morocco built a ship and in this ship his daughter sits and I am afraid to tell her name and there's three times I told her name?
Answer:- Ann.
As I looked over yonder wall I heard a man give a call. His head was beard and his mouth was horn and such a man was never born?
Answer: A rooster.
What hangs over the bog all day?
Answer:- The crook.
As I went into a garden of wheat I picked up a thing that anyone could eat. It was neither fish, flesh or bone and in three weeks time it walked alone?
Answer: - An egg.
A bonack of bread and a sheetful of crumbs, riddle me that and I'll give you my thumbs.
Answer:- The moon and stars.
What sleeps with its finger in it's eye?
Answer:- The Crook.
How long did Moses lie in the rushes?
Answer:- His full length
A b and an o and an x in the middle a t and a y come tell me the riddle?
Answer:- Boxty.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Urbal, Co. Cavan
