School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 03_019
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Riddles
Pray ladies tell me who is that highly favoured although he marries many a wife he still lives single all his life ,a priest.
Long legs crooked thioghs small head and no eyes. A tongs
It is in the house the two ends of it in and the middle of of it out .A sgallop .
It is red and it is blue it is bared with green.The king cannot touch it no more than the queen.The rainbow.
As i went out a slippery gap ,I met my uncle Davy .i cut off his head and left his body easy.
A head of cabbage.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
