School: Talbhain (Irish Wastelands Society) (roll number 4013)
- Location:
- An Cnoc Maol Thoir, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fhearghail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0185
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- (continued from previous page)My father gave me a seed to sow. The seed was black and the ground was white. Riddle me that and I'll buy you a pipe? Ink and paper.
What comes in dry and goes out wet and the longer 'tis in the bigger it gets? Tea.
As I went to the fair of Athy I met seven men with seven wives the seven wives had seven sacks and the seven men had seven cats how many went to the fair of Athy? One.
Going up the road and down the road I met my Aunty Nony she had iron toes and a wooden nose and on my word she would frighten the crows? A gun.
Once in a minute twice in a moment but never in a thousand years? The letter M.
What is it that you would not like to have or you would not like to lose? A bald head.
As black as ink and as white as milk and it hops in the road like hailstones? A magpie.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Fahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Cnoc Maol Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
