1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballintemple

School: Ballintemple

Location:
Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Nic Eoin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 171

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 171

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: Ballintemple
  2. XML Page 171
  3. XML “A Collection of 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. A Collection of Riddles

    Share Share Post
    A Collection of Riddles
    Q Alive in the front dead in the middle and baptized behind?
    A A man ploughing.
    Q A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little cow, with a pair of leather horns.
    A A Hare.
    Q Two feet on the ground, three over head, the living, in the mouth of the dead.
    A A man with a pot on his head.
    Q How many wells would make a river.?
    A One if big enough.
    These riddles were told me by my brother
    John Cown,
    Aughaewlia,
    Ballintemple,
    Ballinagh
    Co. Cavan.
    Written by Olive Cowan,
    Ballintemple N.S.
    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
    Olive Cowan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Aghaweely Upper, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    John Cowan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghaweely Upper, Co. Cavan