School: Twomilehouse (roll number 2284)

Location:
Twomilehouse, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Tomás Bineidh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776C, Page 12_019

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776C, Page 12_019

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Twomilehouse
  2. XML Page 12_019
  3. 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. (continued from previous page)
    I've told her name.
    Answer, An' = Anne.
    As I went out in a slobbery gap,
    I met my uncle Davy.
    I knocked off his hat and sucked his blood,
    And left his body easy.
    Andwer, a bottle of wine.
    If Anne-May Wong went to Hong Cong,
    And played Ping Pong,
    with King Cong,
    And if Anne-May Wong,
    died in Hong Cong,
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Curran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Johnstown or Dunshane, Co. Kildare