School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)

Location:
Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 418

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 418

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: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena
  2. XML Page 418
  3. XML “My Home District”
  4. XML “A Collection of 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. A Collection of Riddles.
    As round as an apple, as flat as a pan. One side a woman and the other sides a man?
    Ans A penny.
    Which side of a donkey is the most hair on?
    Ans. The outside.
    What makes a pair of shoes?
    Ans. Two.
    How man jags in an acre of whins?
    Ans. One and all the rest.
    Black and white and red (read) all over?
    Ans. A Book.
    What goes round the house and round the house and leaves one track after it?
    Ans. A wheelbarrow.
    Long and round and hard to fodder?
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Lafferty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    James Faulkner
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal