School: Ballintemple
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- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
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- A Collection of Riddles
Q Alive in the front dead in the middle and baptized behind?
A A man ploughing.
Q A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little cow, with a pair of leather horns.
A A Hare.
Q Two feet on the ground, three over head, the living, in the mouth of the dead.
A A man with a pot on his head.
Q How many wells would make a river.?
A One if big enough.
These riddles were told me by my brother
John Cown,
Aughaewlia,
Ballintemple,
Ballinagh
Co. Cavan.
Written by Olive Cowan,
Ballintemple N.S.- Collector
- Olive Cowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghaweely Upper, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Cowan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghaweely Upper, Co. Cavan