School: Cornagilta (roll number 16408)
- Location:
- Cornagilty, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Luke Owens
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0956, Page 162](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0956%2FCBES_0956_162.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0956, Page 162
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: Cornagilta
- XML Page 162
- XML “Folklore - 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
- As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kittens,
Kits, cats, men and wives
How many went to St Ives?
Answer:
One went to St Ives, he only met the others.
A room with four corners, has a cat in each corner, three cats before each cat and a cat on every cats tail. How many cats were there altogether?
Answer:
Four cats, each sitting on its own tail.
Hanna - ha - bell - news, spell that in four letter and I will give you a pair of(continues on next page)- Informant
- Michael Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Drumcoo (Brady), Co. Monaghan