Collection of Riddles

Abstract: Story collected by John Browne, a student at Ballystrang school (Ballystrang, Co. Donegal) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 1103/1/21

 Ballystrang [Vol. 1103, Chapter 0001]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Donegal Schools

COLLECTOR
Browne, John 
Gender
male
Location
Meentycat (Townland) 
Convoy (Civil parish) 
Raphoe South (Barony) 
Donegal (County) 

Story text

transcribed at

 

A Collection of Riddles  [duchas:4414786]

R. What does round the house and a harrow after it?
A. A head with a flock of birds.

R. It's long and it's narrow and not very wide and it's wears a green selvage on every side?

A Collection of Riddles  [duchas:4414787]

A. A road.

R. What goes in on a mans bck and goes out in ashes?
A. A creel of tarf.

R. There was a man he had no eyes, he went out to view the sky, he saw a tree with apples on it he took no apples of it nor he felt no apples on it?
A. The man had only one eye are there were two apples on the bush he took one of them off and felt one on.

R. As I went through a slippery slap I met my uncle Daivy. I cut his throat and sucked his blood and left him lying easy?
A. A bottle of whiskey.

R. As I was sitting on my hunkers looking through my willie-winkets I saw the dead burning the living. The coals kidding in the ashes

A Collection of Riddles  [duchas:4414788]

R. I have a we mare with a iron throat and every time she gallops she swallows the rope?
A. A spinning wheel.

Resource description

Origin information
Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 52-54
Volume 1103
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Ó Cuinn.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Riddles   linked data (lcsh)
Riddles--Tomhaiseanna
School location
Ballystrang Ballystrang Conwal Raphoe South Donegal
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4528192
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 1103/1/21

Suggested credit
"A Collection of Riddles"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4528192>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Ó Cuinn.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

School location

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