School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc

Location:
Charleville, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Móráin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 172

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 172

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc
  2. XML Page 172
  3. 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

  1. (continued from previous page)
    How many feet has sixty sheep a shepherd and his dog.?
    Ans. 2 feet.
    What part of a sheep goes out the gap first?
    Ans. Her breath.
    "Why does a cow look over a ditch."?
    Ans Because she cant look under it.
    What walks with four legs in the morning two legs in the middle of the day and three leg's in the evening.?
    Ans A person first walks on his hands and feet when is fairly old he walks with this two feet and when he is very old he walk's with a stick.
    The more you take out of it the larger it gets?
    Ans. A well.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English