School: Elphin (B.) (roll number 1753)
- Location:
- Elphin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cianáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 345
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: Elphin (B.)
- XML Page 345
- 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 have a little cow with her back to the wall and she can eat all the hay from here to Donegal. Ans. A fire.Around the house and around the house and all its puddings after it. Ans. A hen and a clutch of chickens.Nancy with the long nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows. Ans. A candle.As white as a lily as red as a rose the longer she lives the shorter she grows. Ans. A candle.I went into the wood and I got it. I sat down and I looked at it, the more I looked at it, the worse I liked it and I brought it home with me. Answer. A thorn in my foot.Ink ank under the bank ten drawing four, Ans. A woman milking a cow.It has but one horn it is no unicorn, it milks though it is no Kerry cow. My grandmother loves it and round about shoves it with a smile of good luck on her brow. Ans = A teapot.
