School: Killahan
- Location:
- Cill Laithín, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ríoghbhardáin
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“It is said that this following event happened fifty of sixty years ago.”
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“There was a priest who was sentenced to death during the time of the Penal Laws.”
4. There was a priest who was sentenced to death during the time of the Penal Laws. He was given one chance of his life if he were able to give a riddle that could not be solved, by anyone but himself.
The riddle he gave them was this, "Under the earth I lay, on an ivy leaf I stand, I rode the mare that was never foaled, and held the dam in my hand" (no title)
“If a fellow met a fellow in a fellow's field, if a fellow asked a fellow what a fellow means, how many f's in that?”
If a fellow met a fellow in a fellow's field, if a fellow asked a fellow what a fellow means, how many f's in that?