School: Sraith, Magh Sheasta

Location:
Sragh, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Gormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 048

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    of the girl. She screamed and ran. With the fright they got it was out in the street they ran. They never stopped running until they went about a mile-and-a-half away. Their brothers went after them and it was very hard to persuade them but it was a ghost. They brought them back and they were not in the better of it for a long time after. This is a true story.
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  2. A certain bus was filled with people and yet there wasn't a single person in it?
    They were all married.
    When walking through a field of wheat,
    I picked up something good to eat,
    It was neither fish, flesh, fowl, or bone,
    I kept it till it ran home?
    An egg.
    A hard working father,
    A lazy old mother,
    Twelve little children all the same colour?
    A clock.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Dheághaidh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Sragh, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Seán Ó Deághaidh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    90
    Address
    Sragh, Co. Clare