School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)
- Location:
- Derrylehan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 377
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On this page
- (continued from previous page)up comes the red one and covers them all.
The tongue and teeth
Spell hard water in three letters.
Ice
As I went out the slippery gap, who should I meet but Dick red cap, a stick in his hand and a stone in his throat if you tell me this riddle I will give you a groat.
A cherry
I looked for it and I could not get it. The more I looked for it, the less I liked it. I went home having it, because I could not find it.
A thorn
A clipper of ditches, a cutter of thorns, A little brown cow with two leather horns
A hare
What is it that the more you take out, the bigger it gets.
A hole
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, a split in the middle and hair round it all.
The eye
A long legged father, a big bellied mother, and three little children the same size(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Nic Ghiolla Mhártain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumfad, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Brigid Mc Garraghy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathfrask, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Maura Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcat, Co. Sligo
