School: Kilcornan (roll number 2911)
- Location:
- Moig East Glebe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Maidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 419
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- (continued from previous page)om the roadside near Rathkeale.Told by Mrs. Hetty Quinn, Ballinamona, Kilcornan, Co. Limerick.
7/12/1937.
- Riddles.1. On marble walls as white as milk lined with skin as soft as silk, within a fountain crystal clean a golden apple doth appear, no doors there are to this stronghold yet things break in and steal the gold.
An egg.2. Why is a horse never hungry on his journey.
Because he always has a bit in his mouth.3. As I went out a slippery gap, I met my uncle David. I pulled off his head and drank his blood and left his body easy.A bottle of porter and pulled off the cork and drank the porter and left the bottle.4. My mamma sent me to your mamma for the loan of the dimmetty dommetty stick mol dommetty merry and quick.
A churn-dash.5. It was not, nor it is not, nor it never will be, look at your hand and you will plainly see.
Your five fingers are not even.(continues on next page)
