School: Brackey (roll number 3500)
- Location:
- Bracky, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Mac a' Ghoill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1041, Page 199
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: Brackey
- XML Page 199
- XML “Story”
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
Story (continued)
“There were two protestants and a catholic living together one time. The father of each was dead, but their mothers were alive.”
(continued from previous page)and he said that he would give him the flock of cattle that he had outside. The catholic got out let in the minister and away home with the cattle. When the protestants came back very tired they caught the bag, and threw it into the lough.
When they came back home they were very surprised to see the catholic safe at home with hundreds of cattle. They asked him where did he get the cattle, and he said that (get) he got them in the bottom of the lough, and that if he had any help that he could get more. The protestants said that they would help enough, and asked him what did they want to take.
The catholic told them that they wanted nothing only three bags, and they set out. One of the protestants wanted to be in first to have the best share. The other protestant and the catholic tied him up in a bag and threw him out. He came to the top of the water three times, and the other protestant asked the catholic what was the reason for that. The catholic said that was sign that he wanted help for him to be going. He went into the bag, and the catholic threw him out, and had all the land for(continues on next page)