School: Cill Tormóir (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Kiltormer, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Rós, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0056, Page 0280
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- (continued from previous page)A daughter.The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every ending, and the end of every place?
The letter E.If a fiddler in England had a brother a back-smith in Ireland, and if the black-smith in Ireland had no brother a fiddler in England?
It was his sister that was a fiddler.What is it the more you take from it the bigger it gets?
A grave.What goes round the wood and never goes into the wood?
The bark of a tree.There was a man gong to be hanged, the Judge told him if he was able to make a riddle, that no one would guess he would be set free.A. I walked out, I walked in, out of the dead the life did spring, seven were set, and two were free, riddle me that or hanged I'll be.
He walked out and into a graveyard. There were seven eggs set in the skull of a person, and the cock and hen were free.(continues on next page)
