School: Bilboa (roll number 11331)
- Location:
- Bilboa, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Muriel Collier
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0839, Page 173
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: Bilboa
- XML Page 173
- 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)Four little sisters thin and tall one won't work without them all.
Answer. Knitting needles.
If you throw a stone into water what will it become before it reaches the bottom.
Answer. Wet.
Why is it that the barbers are cutting hair no longer.
Answer. Because they are cutting it shorter.
What men are the smallest in the world.
Answer. The barbers because they have to put up a lather (ladder) to shave you.
I went to the garden I found a thing it was neither fish, flesh, nor bone and in three weeks it walked alone.
Answer. An egg.
There is a big fat woman in Dublin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Watchorn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croghtenclogh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Elizabeth Watchorn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Croghtenclogh, Co. Kilkenny
