School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 348
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- A handful of bread, and a fistful of crumbs riddle me that and I will give you my thumbs.
Ans:- The moon and the stars.
A houseful, a roomful and you could not catch a spoonful.
Ans:- smoke.
What’s always behind time?
Ans:- The back of the clock
Twenty four horses tied in a stall, up came the red one and liked them all.
Ans:- your tongue licking your teeth.
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup all the men in Derry would not lift it up.
Ans:- A well
Useful, useless instrument, once it’s bought it’s never lent, the man that buys it, doesn’t own it and the man that owns it does not honour it.
Ans:- A coffin
Up chip cherry, down chip cherry, all the men in Derry would not climb chip cherry.
Ans:- Smoke.
What goes up the ladder and it’s head down.
Ans:- A snail in a mans shoe,
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never touches the wood?
Ans:- A knife in a mans pocket(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Francis Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
