1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles

School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)

Location:
Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. Aodán
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 264

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 264

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: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles
  2. XML Page 264
  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

    Share Share Post
    These are the riddles my mother taught me:-
    Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of boots.
    A head of cabbage.
    What is it that eats all it gets and drinks none at all.
    The fire.
    If it took twenty minuted to wash a baby what would it take to dry her.
    A towel.
    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
    Maggie Kennedy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Brittas Road, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Kennedy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Brittas Road, Co. Tipperary