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School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)

Location:
Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 438

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    Completing the twelfth shirt. Suddenly there was a great flapping of wings in the air and twelve swans alighted on the cart. The maiden threw the twelve shirts on each of her brothers and they were changed into their rightful form except the arm of the youngest, which remains a swan's wing as the shirt was not complete. The king was delighted at the change in everything and he brought his happy wife and her twelve equally happy brothers home to his palace and they lived happily ever afterwards.
    Writer: John Dowd
    Flaskagh
    Dunmore
    Co Galway
    Teller: John McLoughlin
    Caramana
    Dunmore
    Co Galway
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0451: The Maiden Who Seeks her Brothers
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Dowd
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    John Mc Loughlin
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowmanagh, Co. Galway