School: Derinturn (B.), Carbury (roll number 12080)
- Location:
- Doire an tSoirn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: D. Ó Hódhráin
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Riddles heard locally.
I washed my face with water that had never run
I dried it with a towel that was never spun.
Answer - washed in dew, dried by the sun.
I had many riddles brought to me but none that I had not heard (and probably read) before.
John Mooney (aged 78 years) gave me out this riddle.
Signed DP Horan Jan 1939.- Collector
- D.P. Horan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- John Mooney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78