School: Cros Riabhach
- Location:
- An Chros Riabhach, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Ó Siordáin
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- I live in Corryrourke and my name is Brigid Smyth ("Brigie Pat Phildy") I heard the following riddles often;-1)Which man in Ireland wears the biggest hat?2) Long and narrow thin and tall many are the men it has caused to fall?3) Little Jack Huddle sits in a puddle.
He wears a green coat and white breeches.4) If a thatcher is falling off a ladder what will he fall against?5) Elizabeth, Betty and Bess
Went out to a nest.
They found six eggs in the nest.
How many did each bring in?6) High up: Low down: Wears boots and has none?7) Navan; Cavan: Kells and Trim Rathmoylin and Summerhill
Spell that in four letters?8) Cut a bit off and make it longer?9) Black and White went up the hill.
Black came down but White stood still.10) What goes away between two woods and comes back between two waters?
- Collector
- Brigid Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corryrourke, Co. an Chabháin
