School: Lios Áirne
- Location:
- Lisarney, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cinnéide
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1024, Page 090
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: Lios Áirne
- XML Page 090
- 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
- (continued from previous page)I washed myself in water that neither was rain nor sun.
I dried myself with a towel that neither was woven nor spun.
Answer.
I washed myself in the dew and dried myself in the sun.Luke has it and Paul has it,
Girl has it and boy never had it.,
Miss Sullivan has it twice in the one place, but when she got married to Pat Murphy she never had it again.
The letter l.
Forty sheep went through a gap,
Forty more went after that,
Six + seven, ten, eleven.
Three and two? how many is that?
Answer. Five - eg three and two are five.
An(continues on next page)
