School: Porturlan
- Location:
- Porturlan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Tiernan
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- RiddlesUse me well and I'm everybody scratch my back and I'm nobody.
A mirror.Said a child to its father, how does it come that you are my father and I'm not your son.
His daughter. What burns from one end of the wick to the other.
A candle. Useful, useless, bought but never lent, the man that buys it does not want it and the man that wants it does not know it.
A coffin.How many sticks goes to building a crows nest.
None, they are carried to it. What sleeps all night with its finger in its eye.
The crook. There is a man in town selling thread he is not alive, not dead, and he is not in town.
Knot.What is it that is in visible and never(continues on next page)- Collector
- Cecil Finlay
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Sruhagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Finlay
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 28
- Address
- Derryniggin, Co. Leitrim