Volume: CBÉ 0646 (Part 4)

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1. "The Sunrise of Beauty" - The Story of Eirish Castle (continued)

   

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   run away home from them; and he wouldn't be seen again until bedtime, maybe. He was awful strange and odd in his manner, and they began to think he was mental.
   In the end he wouldn't go in and ate with them or anything, and he used get his meals with the servants in the kitchen. The, he wouldn't wear good clothes for them, only always the same oul' duds, torn and dirty. And they was all making a show about the way he was disgracing them, walking into a dance or a party maybe in that trim [?], and he all mud and dirt after being slopping around all day.
   What he used be doing the most of his time was drawing water from a well up'n the side of the hill with an oul' rag of a

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   History Edit

   Date

   15 September 1939

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT0550: Search for the Golden Bird

   Language

   Irish

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Jack Keane