School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 074
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- 1. Riddle me Riddle, my rancy roe my father gave me some seed to sow the see was black the ground was white riddle me that and I will give you a pipe. Ink and paper.
2. First green then red, any lady could lift it up in her hand. A Turnip.
3. A jumper of ditches a clipper of hedges,
a bonny brown cow with pair of leather horns. A Rabbit.
4. Riddle me Riddle my rí what is it that has to eyes and cant see, Scissors.
5. Long legs crooked ties little head and no eyes. Tongs.
6. The more you take from it the bigger it i. A hole.
7. There still on the trams. the Drivers.
8. What bears and never blooms.
The crane.
9. What grown in the wood and can be heard in the town and after earns his master many pound
A fiddle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Evelyn Mc Clelland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Miss Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
