School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 07_063
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Riddles.
Broken backed father ,big belly mother ,three little children and they like one another.Pothooks pot,and the three legs of the pot.
A hillful and a hollowfull and you could take a shovelfull.
Fog.
Black and white and it hops on the road like hailstone,A magpie.
Pray tell me ladies tell me if you can who is that highly favoured man although he marries many a wife he still is single all his life,a priest.
it is in the house the two ends of it in ,and the middle of it out. A sgallop on the thatch.
It is red and it is blue and it is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
