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School: Gort an Tuair (roll number 13467)

Location:
Gortatoor, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Áine Nic Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 445

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    1. What turns without moving? Buttermilk.
    2. If you fell off a monument, what would you fall against? Your will.
    3. Cut and served but never eaten?
    4. The bards.
    4. A horse with an iron throat,
    As fast as he gallops,
    He swallows the ropes? A spinning wheel.
    5. What goes in dry, and comes out wet?
    The tea.
    6. It is in the rock and not in the stone,
    It is in the marrow and not in the bone,
    It is in the church and not in the steeple,
    It is in the minister and not in his people? The letter R.
    7 Little man, little man,
    Sitting on the wall,
    Drinking, drinking,
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katie Bourke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Bourke
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo