School: Na Cealla (Kells) (roll number 8148)

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   Cad é an droichead is mó san Domhain?
   Bodhaisín.
   Cad é an driochead is giorra san Domhain?
   Driochead do shrón.
   GAbhann sé ar an dtalamh fé an dtalamh agus ós cionn na talmhan, cad é agus ní bhíonn sé ar an dtalamh?
   traen ar na ralaí iarainn.
   Cad a glúaiseann go Baile Áth Cliath agus ní corruigheann sé?
   An bhóthar.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   Mrs Mc Crohan has but one eye and a tail which she leaves fly and every time she goes in a gap she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap? A needle and thread. As I was going to the fair of Chandike, I met forty tinkers and their wives and every wife had a child and every child had a bag and in every bag there was a cat how many were going to the fair? one (myself)

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Shea

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kells, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Jeremiah Shea

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Address

   Kells, Co. Kerry