School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)
- Location:
- Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Nic Sheáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 370
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- Riddles: What has an eye and cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
R: What goes round the house and round the house and carries his father’s coat?
A: Wool on a sheep’s back.
As round as an O, as flat as a pan. The whole of a woman and the half of a man.
A: A penny.
How could you compare a lame dog to a boy doing sums?
A: Because he puts down three and carries one.
What is in the church that is not in the steeple?
What is in the priest that is not in the people?
What is in the marble that is not in the stone?
What is in the marrow that is not in the bone?
Answer: The letter r
What goes up the chimney down but can’t come down the chimney up?
Answer: An Umbrella.
Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry, spell that without a k?
Answer: That.
Out I went and in I came, the six sat and the seventh run. Come riddle me that or you will be hung [sic]
Answer: A bird sitting on eggs.
What sits on the “bawk” with an eye like a hawk?
Answer: A Sootdrop.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Johnnie Elliott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumawark, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr J. Elliott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Drumawark, Co. Donegal
