School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)
- Location:
- Doonflin Upper, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maolagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 053
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Dún Flainn
- XML Page 053
- 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. When is a cow not a cow.
Ans. When she is turned into a field.
2. When was beef the highest.
Ans. When the cow jumped over the moon.
3. Out of a roomful you could not take a spoonful.
Ans. Smoke.
4. Around the wood and around the wood and never goes into the wood.
Ans. The bark of a tree.
5. Hairy in hairy but hairy into hairys mount.
Ans. Putting your leg into a stocking.
6. Constantinople is a hard word and if you are not able to spell it you are a bad scholar.
Ans. It
7. London, Derry, Cork, and Kerry spell that without a K.
Ans. that
8. Comes out between two woods and goes in between two waters.
Ans. A person going out for water.
9. Why is a dead doctor like a adead duck.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Myles Tempany
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skreen, Co. Sligo
