School: An Cillín (roll number 16603)
- Location:
- Killin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Eachlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 221
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- (continued from previous page)Answer:
The man had only one eye, and there were two apples on the tree, and he took one off it and left [one] on it.
Riddle:
There was a sick boy in the hospital one time and a man went to see him. When he went there the people in the hospital asked him what he was to this boy and he said, "Here I am a bird alone; brother and sister I have none but the sick boy's father is my father's son".
Answer:
He was his father.
Riddle:
I have a wee mare with an iron throat as fast as she gallops she swallows the rope.
Answer:
A spinning wheel.
Riddle:
What never was nor never will be look at your hand and that you will see.
Answer:
Your small finger because it is not as large as the three others.
Riddle:
A houseful, a roomful you couldn't get a spoonful.
Answer:
"Smoke"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Teresa Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Anne Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal
