1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Deravoy

School: Deravoy (roll number 373)

Location:
Derryveagh, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
E. Treanor
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 058

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 058

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: Deravoy
  2. XML Page 058
  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. Riddles (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    A pot of potatoes
    54. Why does a rabbit go up the hill.
    Because it can't go an under it
    55. As round as an apple as plump as a ball and covers the market house steeple and all.
    The sun.
    56. If a man falls off a house what will he fall against.
    His will
    57. Down in yon meadow I have a table how many men sits around it
    A man mowing
    58 Pink : pank : down yon bank ten about four.
    A woman milking.
    59. What begins at one end of the wood and licks it all over.
    A sow licking a trough
    60. There was a man of Adams race. He had a certain dwelling place It was neither earth, heaven, hell or any other place for man to dwell in.
    Jonas
    61. Four and twenty white cows standing in a stall up comes the red bull and licks over them all.
    Your tongue licking your teeth.
    62. Why is hell like a cobblers shop.
    Because it is full of condemed soles.
    63. Biddy boxted it and battered it and
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    E. Treanor
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Teacher