School: Carra
- Location:
- An Cairthe, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 386
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: Carra
- XML Page 386
- 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. What house is never dark?
Answer = A light-house.
2. What goes up and down, wears many boots and never had any boots?
Answer = A football.
3. What's the strongest day in the week?
Answer = Sunday, all the rest are week days.
4. What's the easiest to widen a road?
Answer = Add the letter B, to the word road, and it is widened at once.
5. What's the nearest tree to the sea?
Answer = The beech.
6. Round the wood and round the wood, and cannot get into the wood?
Answer = The bark of a tree.
7. I have a little horse with an iron throat, as quick as he gallops he swallows the rope?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marion Sarsfield
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ceathrú na gCloch, Co. Mhaigh Eo
