School: An Caiseal Árd (roll number 16442)
- Location:
- Cashelard, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraic M. Mac Gongail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 116
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“There was a King once upon a time who was very sick.”
(continued from previous page)would bring him this bird. The eldest son set out the next day to find the bird, and on his way he met a fox and the fox told him to go to a certain town-land in which there were two houses. One of the houses was lighted but there was no light in the second one. The fox told him to go into the house in which there was not light. When the boy came to the townland he was afraid to go into the unlighted house but went into the lighted house. When the eldest son did’nt return before a week, the second son set out but he met with the same fate. After another week the third son set out and he met the fox who told him to go into the house in which there was no light. He also told him to sit on his tail and he would bring him to the house. They slept that night in the house and the next day they set off to the king of Spain who had the bird.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Harkin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corlea, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Bernard Gonigle
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60