School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 236
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballinamore (B.)
- XML Page 236
- XML “Riddles”
- XML “Riddles”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 197 Q. What is it that the train has and cannot do without it?
A. The noise.198 Q. How many hairs are in a cat's tail?
A. None.199 Q. What is it you get, you [give?] in, you take out, you light, you quench, and then put in your pocket.?
A. A cigarette200 Q. Smoke in a glen with no fire in it, what's that?
A. A fog.
- Collector
- Antony Turbitt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Antony Turbitt,
Main St.,
Ballinamore,
Standard VI.Q. How is Athens like the wick of a candle?
A. Because it is in Greece.
Q.As I looked out on my gable window I lost my gable ring. I saw the dead carrying the living. Wasn't that a wonderful thing?
A. A ship and its crew.
Q. What is like one half of the moon?
A. The other half.
Q. Two legs sitting on three legs, in come four legs and snap down one leg, up jump two legs and throws three legs at four legs.
A. A woman sitting on a stool, in comes a dog and snaps the leg of mutton. Up jumps the woman and throws the stool at the dog.
Peter Galligan, Dromore. - Collector
- Peter Galligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromore, Co. Leitrim
