School: Maol Raithnighe
- Location:
- Mallaranny, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: An tSiúr Philomena
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 164
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- (continued from previous page)Carolan did not know in the world what to do when he saw himself left alone with the coffin."Well in the name of God I'll never leave this till i see what the coffin contains" said Pat to himself.
He opened it and the finest looking woman he had ever seen was lying alive in it.
"Get up out of that" said he to her."You're long enough there".Up she got as soon as he tells her and stood beside him.He brought her home to his mother.
When Pats mother saw them both coming in the door she welomes them and said to Pat "faith as long as you went Pat, you have the wife at last" "I hope I have, mother" said Pat.
She was the best works woman ever was seen,Pat made up his mind to marry her.
He went to the priest and told him how to got the woman and the he intends to make her his wife.
"You could not do better" said the priest "and you might never get a better wife".
The following day he took her to(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Seán Ó hOdráin
- Gender
- Male
