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School: Cros Riabhach

Location:
Crossreagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
T. Ó Siordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 355

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    1) "I have a little cow: She lives by the wall. Give her gay: Give her straw and she will eat it all. Giver her water and she will die?
    2) When its shut it is open and when it is open it is shut?
    3) What is always running past the door and never comes in?
    4) What is full and holds more?
    5) Twenty sheep went out a gap: Twenty more followed that:
    The shepherd and his dog:
    How many sheep went out the gap?
    6) There was a fiddler in Cork had a brother- a fiddler in New York.
    And the fiddler in Cork had no brother a fiddler in New York.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Hynes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corryrourke, Co. Cavan