School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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- 1. What goes up when the rain comes down? An umbrella.
2. What opens like a barn door and shuts like a trap? A scissors.
3. Riddle me, riddle me randeoi; my father gave me seeds to sow; the seeds were black, and the ground was white; riddle me riddle me randio. Pen, ink, and note paper.
4. The man that made it never wore it, the man that wore it never saw it. A coffin.
5. What has patches and no stitches? A head of cabbage.
6. It grew in the wood, the cow calved it, and the smith made it. A bellows.
7. As I went up the slippery gap, I met my Aunty Mary; she had timber toes, and an iron nose, and upon my word she would frighten the cows. A gun.
8. What goes under the water and over the water and never touches the water? An egg in a (ducks) belly.
- Collector
- Paddy Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skull, Co. Cork
