1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Dring, Granard

School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)

Location:
Dring, Co. Longford
Teacher:
James Drum
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 267

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 267

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: Dring, Granard
  2. XML Page 267
  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 (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    Why is the town of Athens so much like the wick of a candle?
    Answer = Because it's in the middle of Greece.
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never touches a bit of wood?
    Answer = A knife in a man's pocket.
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood?
    Answer = The bark of a tree.
    What goes up the ladder and its head down?
    A nail in a man's boot.
    A house-ful a room-ful, and you couldn't catch a spoonful?
    Answer = Smoke
    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
    Peter Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Aghakilmore, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Patsy Sullivan
    Age
    12
    Address
    Ballinalee, Co. Longford