School: Cillín

Location:
Killeen, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Hubáin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 509

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 509

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cillín
  2. XML Page 509
  3. XML “Guesses”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    dress. A Rush
    In the garden are laid a most beautiful maid that never appeared in the morn, she became a man's wife in the first day of her life, and died before she was born.
    Eve
    As I walked out where I walked in I met the death that life was in, seven were bound and the eighth flew free. If you riddle me that it's hanged I'll be.
    A bird's nest in a person's skull.
    There is a cow, and she would eat all the straw from here to Donegal, and if she got water she would not live at all.
    A fire.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Children of Killeen School
    Address
    Killeen, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Martin Healy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moyny, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Pat Tighe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Peter Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockaun, Co. Mayo