School: Cill Mhuire (B.), Lios Árd-achaidh
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Buachalla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 191
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: Cill Mhuire (B.), Lios Árd-achaidh
- XML Page 191
- XML “Folklore - An Old Story of Three Brothers”
- XML “Folklore”
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
- There was once three brothers who were very poor. They consulted one day to work very hard at the turf and when they would have a lot of money they would buy a horse. When they had a lot of money, two of them went to the fair and bought the horse and they were very pleased at the bargain. One of them looked at him before they went to bed and he told the other two brothers that the horse was not chewing the cud. They were very troubled. A neighbour told them that any horse does not chew the cud.
- Informant
- Mrs Desmond
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraclogh, Co. Cork
- Denis Long's father was a poet. He wrote a song beginning with
If you are poor be sure
be freedom make(continues on next page)
