School: Gráig na Muilte Iarainn

Location:
Woodford, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Tomás T. Ó Muirgheasa
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0477

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0477

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: Gráig na Muilte Iarainn
  2. XML Page 0477
  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)
    Little yellow cup, full of peoples meat?
    A thimble.
    Forty sheep went out a gap, fifty more followed them, five and seven, twice eleven, three and two - how much is that?
    Five.
    Useful useless instrument often bought but never lent?
    A coffin.
    Bigger no doubt of it, the more you take out of it?
    A hole.
    Did New Year's Day and Christmas day ever fall on the one year?
    It always does, if you begin at January and count to the end of the (new) year.
    Michael F. McMahon,
    Woodford,
    Co. Galway.
    Got from Mr. M.F. McMahon
    Woodford
    Co Galway
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael F. Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Woodford, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mr M.F. Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Woodford, Co. Galway