School: An Cheathrú Gharbh
- Location:
- Carrowgarve, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Fiachra
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- (continued from previous page)beggar raised her head slowly and angrily answered. “Princess Marion, do you not know that it is very wicked to mock anyone especially those who are poor and infirm, As a punishment your beautiful golden hair of which you are so vain, will become short and coarse like a monkey’s coat, your eyes will squint, and you will grow a (grow) tail which no clothes will hide, and which can be seen in light or darkness. After a miserable six or seven years the little girl began to come to her former state again.
- Collector
- Mary Ellen Ormsby
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowvaneen, Co. Mayo