School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 168
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Robertstown, Naas
- XML Page 168
- XML (no title)
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
(no title)
“Many years ago a man named Mr Walsh lived in a very lonely place in Lowton.”
Many years ago a man named Mr. Walsh lived in a very lonely place in Lowton. There was a rath behind his house. When people would be passing in the night they could hear Mr. Walsh talking. They said that it was the fairies he was talking to. Others passing at twelve o'clock could hear the fairies playing music. One night a man named Mr. Gray came to Mr. Walsh's garden to steal apples out of it. the fairies saw Mr. Gray stealing the apples and they asked him what was he doing. He said he was taking the apples. Then the fairies turned him into a crow for the wicked thing he was about to do on Mr. Walsh.
- Collector
- Veronne O' Keefe
- Gender
- Female