School: Drom Dhá Liag (C.) (roll number 12230)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhrisceoil
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 182
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: Drom Dhá Liag (C.)
- XML Page 182
- 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
- 27th April 1938
Q. Four legs up four legs down soft in the middle and hard all round.
A. A bed.
Q. Black and white and read all over.
A. A newspaper.
Q. Over the fire and under the fire and never touches the fire.
A. A cake in a bastible
Q. As black as ink as white as milk and hops on the road like hailstone
A. A magpie
Q. The Queen of Manchester sent to her sister a bottomless vessel for holding raw meat
A. A ring.
Q. A steel horse and a brass driver
A. A needle and thimble
Q. As round as a marble as flat as a pan on one side a woman and on the other side a man
A. A penny
Q. Opens like a barn-door shuts like a trap you may think of many things before you think of that.
A. An umbrella.
- Collector
- Julia Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballaghadown North, Co. Cork
