School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher
- Location:
- Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 241
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: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher
- XML Page 241
- 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)(10) 'I have a little man above in the field.
If I pulled his leg his nose would bleed?
Ans = A pump.(11) 'Cork, and Kerry Londonderry spell me that without a K.?
Ans = that.(12) Riddle me, riddle me randi O,
My father gave me seed to sow,
The seed was black and the ground was white
Riddle me that again Saturday night?
Ans = black ink and white paper.(13) 'Tis white, tis black is read all over?
Ans = a newspaper.(14) 'A house full, a room full, and cannot take a spoonfull?
Ans = smoke.(15) 'What turns without moving?
Ans = Milk(16) 'A little red heifer stands by the wall, she eats all she gets and drinks none at all?
Ans = a fire.(17) 'What has a tongue and cannot speak?
Ans = a shoe.(18) 'one duck before two ducks one duck behind two ducks and a duck between two ducks? How many ducks is that?
Ans = Three ducks(19) 'Why is ten and ten like eleven and eleven?
Ans = because eleven and eleven make twenty two and ten and ten make twenty too.
