School: Drumkilly
- Location:
- Droim Choiligh, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Owen Mc Govern
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 317
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: Drumkilly
- XML Page 317
- 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
- This district seems to be very poor in folk-lore. My father, John Galligan who is aged about sixty two and who is a farmer living in the townland of Corlislea told me these riddles.
No. 1. What is cut in the wood and sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound.
Answer-a fiddle.
No.2. There is a grey goose
she is large of her size,
and anyone who buys her
has need to be wise,
she has feet in her body,
and walks upon none,
she is far from her village,
and seldom at home.
Answer-A ship.
No.3. As round as an apple as flat as a pan.
On one side a woman and on the other a man.
Answer-a penny
No.4. With iron hard they did me turn. With fire and water they did me(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Galligan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Corr Leasa Liath, Co. an Chabháin
