School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0582, Page 050
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: Dúndroma
- XML Page 050
- 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)of a woman, The head of a man.
(A Penny.)
8. What's full and holds more?
(A pot of potatoes.)
9. What goes up the chimney down, that wont go up the chimney up.
(An umbrella.)
10. Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry, spell me that without a K.
(That.)
11. A field full of white cows and a big red cow in the middle.
(Teeth and Tongue.)
12. What goes up and down and never touches earth or sky.
(A pump handle.)
13. What is it that you have, yet you cant see, and it is nearer to you than it as to me?
(The back of your head.)
14. What disease does a kettle get?
(Boils.)
15. What is it that is as white as milk but it isnt milk, as green as grass, but it isnt grass, as red as blood but it isnt blood, as black as ink but it isnt ink?
(A blackberry.)
16. Black and White and it hops on the road like hailstones.
(A magpie.)
17 What's black and white and red (read) all over?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susie Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tooreen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Johnston
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tooreen, Co. Tipperary
