School: Cill Rónáin
- Location:
- Keadew, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Eochaidhín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 336
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: Cill Rónáin
- XML Page 336
- 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
- (continued from previous page)7. What name of a certain timber is often heard over a game of cards?
Ans Deal.
8. What line of business is most contrary?
Ans a Dyer's because by dying he lives.
9. What trunk can no key open?
Ans the trunk of a tree.
10. Spell dry grass in three letters?
Ans hay.
11. Flys high wears boots still has no boots to wear
Ans A football.
12. Up chip, chop cherry, all the men in Derry, would not climb, up chip, chop cherry?
Ans smoke.
13. What goes round the wood, and round the wood, and never gets into the wood?
Ans the bark of a tree.
14. What is the best way, to save(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James G. Finneran
- Gender
- Male
