School: Lisnagirl (1)
- Location:
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Harriett Kinkade
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 164
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: Lisnagirl (1)
- XML Page 164
- 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. Born before his mother, died before his father, and buried with his grandfather.
Ans. Abel, his mother never was born and his grandfather was the dust of the earth.
2. Why is a stick of toffee like a horse?
Ans. Because the more you lick it the faster it goes
3. What is the longest word in the English language?
Ans. Smiles, because there is a mile between the first and last letter
4. A man who had no eyes went out one day to view the skies. He saw a tree with apples on it, he took no apples of it and he left no on it
Ans. He had one eye and he saw a tree with two apples on it, he took one apple from it and he left one on it.
5. What is that you never put in your pocket and yet sometimes you find it there
Ans. A hole(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tilly Dancey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Beagh Glebe, Co. Cavan
