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School: Sraith, Magh Sheasta

Location:
Sragh, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Gormáin
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    What is no good until it is broken? An egg.
    I have a little Kerry cow, she is as good as any cow, she sits in the corner with one horn?
    A kettle
    Four dilly danders
    Two sticky standers,
    Four nookers, two tuckers,
    And a wig wag wig?
    A goat.
    Chip chip cherry
    All the men in Kerry
    Would not catch chip chip cherry?
    Smoke.
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    'Tis white and red and "sparible" green,
    The king cannot get at it no more than the queen?
    A rainbow.
    Over water and under water, and can't touch the water? A woman going over a bridge with a bucket of water on her head.
    I have a white horse and a red house and
    You must break the white to go into the red house? An egg.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Micheál Ó Gliasáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Sragh, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Pádraig Ó Gliasáin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Sragh, Co. Clare