School: Naomh Pádraig
- Location:
- Killala, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Laura C. Mc Kenna
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Naomh Pádraig
- XML Page 275
- 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) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you could not guess that?
Answer=a pipe2) As black as ink, as white as milk and she hops on the ground like a hailstone.
Answer= a magpie3) Why does a hen peck a pot?
Answer = because she cannot lick it4) As I went out to the garden I met my uncle David. I cut off his head and I left his body standing?
Answer = a head of cabbage.5) How many feet have forty sheep a shepherd and his dog?
Answer =2 feet6) Troop, troop around the house and all their heads turned down?
Answer = nails in your shoes7) Little red Betty the longer she lives the shorter she grows?
Answer = a candle(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Sealy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathfran, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathfran, Co. Mayo