Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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1. Another Tale of the Moate of Regorey (continued)

   

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   fairy walks out and comes out to the drunken man and leads him in to the moate. In he goes anyhow and there before was the most beautiful place he ever saw. On a golden throne sat the queen of the fairies and all around her sat the rest of fairies and they all dressed in golden robes and the roof was full of gold and also the floor and there was about forty thousand little lamps humming birghtly around the palace as that is what it was. Well the fairy-queen asked the drunkard to sing what he was singing out on the road, so he stands up as straight as he could and takes off his cap and he '[?]" the roof off the palace. Almost he sang so well all the fairies then started in to sing with him and when all were finishes the fairy queen stood up on her throne and cried out silence. Then everyone was silent and you could hear the grass growing. Then the fairy queen said. We will have to do something for this man as he has made our song a hundred times better than what it was. So they called a meeting and they went into another apartment and soon they came back and the Queen stood up

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   History Edit

   Date

   20 June 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Máirtín Ó Cearbhaill