School: Kilgobnet
- Location:
- Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 351
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- Riddle, Riddle ree such a riddle could'nt be through a rock through a reel through an old spinning wheel through a hopper, through a leopard through a little bag of pepper through a horses shin-bone
A flash
The man who made it never wore it, and the man who wore it never saw it
A coffin
A little Kerry cow tied to a wall she drinks all round her and eats nothing at all
A lamp.
Four sticks standiung four little landers, two hookers two crookers and a twist about
A cow.
Narrow in the top wide in the middle and narrow in the end
A shade
Headed like an eggstand, tailed like a rat you'll guess for ever but you wont guess that.
A pipe.
Spell a broken down ditch in three letters
Gap
It is red, it is blue it is emerald green(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John Sullivan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
