School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0056
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- (continued from previous page)It is not within nor abroad and we can not do without. A window. As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the king's horses would not pull it up. A well. Flour of England, fruit of Spain met together in a shower of rain, put in a bag and tied with a string. riddle me that and I will give you a gold ring. A plum pudding.
Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes. A tongs. What is as thorny as a furze. A graineog.
Londonderry Cork and Kerry spell me that without an r. that. A flock of white sheep on a red hill hill, here they go there they go, now they stand still. Teeth in your gums.Chrissie Egan, Rehan, Tynagh.
Information got from Michael Larkin Rehan, Tynagh.
Age 56 years
- A riddle, a riddle, a farmer's fiddle, alive in one end and dead in the middle ?
A plough.
Hoddy doddy with a big round body with a big flat hat what is that ?
A pot.
A flock of white sheep on a red hill here they go, there they go now they go stand still ?
Teeth in your gum.
a little man dressed in white took the fever(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Feebrack or Nutgrove, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Feebrack or Nutgrove, Co. Galway
