School: An Clochar, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí

Location:
Ballymacelligott, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Conchobhair
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    4. There's a man who has married many a woman and yet he is single all his life.
    A Priest
    5. A hand, afoot, and has four legs
    A Bed
    6. It is neither fish, flesh, feather[?] or bones and in three weeks it walks alone
    An egg.
    7. I know a little boy that is dressed in red, a stone for hid body and a stick for his leg.
    A Haw
    8. A fiddler in Cork had a brother a blind fiddler in Clare, but the fiddler in Clare had no brother a fiddler in Cork.
    The Fiddler in Cork was a girl.
    9. What goes all round the house and stops at the door.
    A Brush
    A horse with a flaxen tail
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Twomey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Maglass West, Co. Kerry