School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 023
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: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass)
- XML Page 023
- 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
- (1) Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four? Answer. A man milking a cow.
(2) What goes up the chimney down but won't come down the chimney up? Answer. An umbrella.
(3) It grows in the wood with leaves on it, it grazes in the field with hair on it now it is dead and full of life bones? Answer. A clog.
(4) What goes around the wood and around the wood and still never goes into the wood? Answer. The bark of a tree.
(5) As I went out a gap I met a boy with a red cap a stick in his hand a stone in his belly riddle me that and I will give you a penny? Answer. A (gun) cherry.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernard Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Hogan
- Gender
- Female
