School: Drumlish (B.) (roll number 10022)
- Location:
- Drumlish, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ml. McGovern
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0757, Page 205
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- Old Irish Riddles. 8.10.37.The following are a list of old Irish Riddles which I have heard from my Grandmother and other people.
1) What is it that has eyes and cannot see? Answer; a potato.
2) What is it that is full and can hold more? Answer; a pot of potatoes.
3) I know a person with five letters in his surname and I will say you are a good scholar if you can spell it in two letters? Answer; K C.
4) What is it that is full of holes and can hold water? Answer; a sponge.
5) As I went out on yonder gap I saw a great wonder, four and twenty blackbirds tearing the ground asunder? Answer: a harrow.
6) What is it that has sixteen legs and cannot walk? Answer eight pairs of trousers.
7) Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes? Answer; a thongs.
8) As I went out on yonder gap I met a little boy with a bundle of sticks and no one could count them, only God? Answer; the hair(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vincent Duignan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derawley, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Pat Gilhooly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Derawley, Co. Longford
