School: Uachtar Achaidh (roll number 9762)
- Location:
- Oughteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Caitlín Knott
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 068
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- Riddles1. The half of the moon, the whole of the hill, a well known town in Leitrim still. Mohill.
2. As round as an apple as plump as a ball, split in the middle and hair round it all.
Your eye.
3. As I went out on yonder gap. I met my Uncle David, I cut off his head and sucked his blood and left him lying easy. A blackberry.
4. What goes up the ladder with its head down. A nail in a man's boot.
5. Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K - That.
6. Forty sheep went on a gap, forty more followed that, six seven ten eleven, two and three how much is that. Five.
7. What goes over the water and never touches the water. A duck with an egg.
8. What goes away between two woods and comes back between two waters. - A man drawing water.
9. Why is a policeman like an aeroplane. Because they both take you up.
10. Why is a dress like an orange skin - Because you slip on both.
11. As I looked out on yonder window, I saw four and twenty wild geese tearing the world asundar.
A harrow.
Because you slip on both.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Olive Mitchell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killaneen, Co. Leitrim
