School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)
- Location:
- Shronell, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 242
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: Srónaill (Shronell)
- XML Page 242
- XML “A Funny Story”
- XML “A Story About Damer”
- XML “Local 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)half-crown if you do anything lazier. " Put it into my pocket father." said Bill
- Damer lived long ago in a place called Damer Ville between Lattin and Shronell and he had a lot of gold he used to hire men to shovel the gold and they used have to strip off and he used to watch them.
- Collector
- Thomas Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lattin East, Co. Tipperary
- Local Riddles.
Q1. What is it when you shakes hand with it it nose begins to bleed?
A A Pump.
Q2. What walks with its head down?
A A nail in your boot.
Q3. Its black and white and read all over?
A. A Newspaper.
Q4. What is it has an eye and cannot see?
A. A Needle
Q5. Why is the letter K like a pigs tail?
A. Because it is the end of fork
Q6. Why are old stockings like dead men?
A. Because their souls are departed.(continues on next page)
