School: Lakyle, Whitegate
- Location:
- An Leathchoill, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: John Davis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588, Page 174
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: Lakyle, Whitegate
- XML Page 174
- 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) "Iron nose, timber toes, 'pon my word she'd frighten the crows".
Answer:- A gun.
(2) What is it that drinks all it gets and eats nothing?
Answer:- A lamp.
(3) What is it that eats all it gets and drinks nothing at all?
Answer:- Rust.
(4) As round as an apple as deep as a cup, all the men in the world couldn't pull it up.
Answer:- A well.
(5) As black as ink, as white as milk, and it hops on the road like hailstones.
Answer:- A magpie.
(6) Kitty inside the wall, Kitty outside the wall, if you'll touch Kitty she'll bite you.
Answer:- A Nettle.
(7) Chip, Chip, Cherry, all the men in Derry wouldn't climb chip, chip, cherry.
Answer:- Smoke.
