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School: Ráth na mBeach (roll number 17129)

Location:
Rathnamagh, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
R. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 418

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    A head of cabbage
    A room full a kitchen full and cannot take a spoonful?
    Smoke
    As I went up the garden I saw the greatest wonder twenty four black birds rooting the ground assunder?
    A man harrowing the ground
    In a garden was laid a beautiful maid as bright and as fair as the morning. The first hour of her life she became a wife and died before she was born?
    Eve
    What is full and holds more?
    A pot of potatoes when you put water in.
    I have a little tub and its full of meat every day but Sunday?
    A thimble
    Twenty four white cows tied to a stall up come the red one and licks them all?
    your tongue and your teeth
    Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty got a great fall, all the King's horses and all the King's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín O' Hóra
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonkee, Co. Mayo