School: Lisnagirl (2)
- Location:
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Thaicnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)Because she didn't die atall.
What goes from house to house and stays out at night? A path.
How many wells would make a river? One of it were long enough.
Black and white and hops on the road like hailstones? The magpie.
What is it that the more you take from it the bigger it gets? A hole in a wall.
As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man? A penny.
I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse and there are as many windows on it as on the King's house? A thimble.
My father gave me some seeds to sow. The seeds were black and the ground was white riddle me that and I will give you a pipe? Ink and paper.
Give it hay, give it straw, give it water and it will die? A fire
In yonder field there is a well and in that well there is a table(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Rathallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Proinnsias Ó Rathallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Seán Ó Floinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Somhairle Ó Fiach
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan
