School: Bunninadden
- Location:
- Bunnanaddan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: John J. Rochford
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- (continued from previous page)followed that, twice eleven six and seven three and two how much is that?
A.:Five sheep.
G.: A bird featherless flew from Paradise and sat on castle mount, down came Lord Landless took it up handless, eat it up toothless, and rode away horseless?
A.: Snow.
G.: Once alive with hair on it, once in the wood with leaves on it and now it's dead and living bones in it?
A.: A clog.
G.: I ran and I got it. I sat down and I searched for it. If I got it I would not take it but as I got it not, I brought it?
A.: A thorn in your foot.
G.:Sl and I in the middle go tell me the riddle?
A.: Sligo.
Maggie Gallagher
Bunninadden
Got from:
Mrs. Ellen Gallagher,
Achonry,
Bunninadden.
- Collector
- Maggie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bunnanaddan, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Achonry, Co. Sligo
