School: Currach Saileach (roll number 13800)
- Location:
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mag Fhloinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 034
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Currach Saileach
- XML Page 034
- 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
- (continued from previous page)got three bundles of rushes. The two big lads did as they were told but the small lad stood aside and went behind the door. While they were gone for the rushes the small lad saw a lot of dead people in a cellar. Every one that went in to this house got killed if they were not up before four o'clock. The small one wakened at three and told the other boys to go because they would be killed if they did not do so. They came to this big merchant. There was one old woman in the house and the merchant said he would give any of them £100 if they would get the white horse, golden cup and the melodeon which were in the house. The small lad said he would have a try. One night as the old woman slept the boy pinched the white horse. The old woman got up and gave him a bit of hay(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Terence Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lissydaly, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patrick Breheny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lissydaly, Co. Roscommon
