School: Coill an tSrotha (roll number 5352)
- Location:
- Cullentragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Dhorchaidh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 435
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: Coill an tSrotha
- XML Page 435
- XML “Riddles and Answers”
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
- If a farmer raises a dozen acres of wheat in dry weather, what will he raise in wet weather? ans: an umbrella
Black and white and re(a)d all over? ans: a newspaper.
What had an eye that never sheds a tear? answer: a needle.
A man is about to hit somebody, why is he like a clock with the hands at 12:59? answer: Because he is about to strike one.
How could you compare a priest with a shoe-maker? answer: Both mend bad soles (souls).
I have a wee cow with her back to the wall, she eats more hay from here to Donegal, give her wind and she will fly, give her water and she will die? answer: the fire.
What is it that is full of holes and yet holds water? answer: a crook
What is the shiest piece of furniture in a house? answer: a clock, it has its hand in its face all day.
What stands in the garden with its heart in its head? answer: a head of cabbage.
What turns without moving? answer: milk.
Hard working father, a lazy old other, twelve little children all the same colour? answer: a clock.
A houseful, a roomful, yet you could not lift a spoonful? answer: smoke
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, twisting and turning all day long? answer: an eye
As I went to London and saw a great wonder- four pots boiling and no fire under them? Your spring wells.
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Gourty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Camderry, Co. Leitrim
