School: An Pasáiste Thoir (C.), Port Láirge
- Location:
- Passage East, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Clare, Bean Uí Eachthigheirn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0652, Page 344
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“Little nannie netti-coat...”
(continued from previous page)Two long legs, crooked thighs
Little head and no eyes.A tongs.What makes more noise under a gate than a pig?Two pigs.Long tall man standing in a glen, nothing in his head but devils and demons.A thistle.Ink, ank, under a bank, ten drawn four.A man milking a cow.Once upon a time there was a girl going to be hanged. The hangman told her if she could make up a riddle which they could not guess, her life would be spared. After a while she came in and said -
"As I walked out, as I walked in
I saw the dead the life was in
Six were there, the seventh to be
Riddle me that and hanged I will be". A nest containing young birds in a skull in a churchyard.(continues on next page)