School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0052
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- (continued from previous page)minds the train and the other trains the mind.
What walks with its head downwards A nail in your shoe.
Look at your hand and you will plainly see a thing that never was nor never will be ? That your five fingers will never be even.
What is more numerous in a riddle than holes ? Corners.
What goes round the wood and round the wood and sits in the corner of the wood ? A dish cloth.
In and out and never goes out at all ? A crane
Up the hill a wonder down the hill a thunder, twenty four devils tearing the world asunder ? A harrow.
What goes up when the rain comes down ? An umbrella.
Two feet on the ground three feet overhead, the head of the living in the mouth of the dead ? A pot on a mans head.
- Collector
- Teresa Broderick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Laurence Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Galway
