School: Dungourney (roll number 3501)
- Location:
- Dungourney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rignigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 341
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- (continued from previous page)There lived one time in DUngourney and old man and his wife, who was very fond of money. Somebody died in a foreign country leaving them a good deal of money, but they were not satisfied. They were told that after the sun went down int he evening the fairies would be at a certain corner of a fort. They should take a purse with them and after calling the fairies three times. The fairies would drop in some gold. At the end of a hut was a lovely spring well, called the fairy well and before going that evening they were told not to drink one drop of the water. The fairies came and filled the purse with gold but the old woman drank one drop of the water and the gold disappeared.
- Collector
- May Geaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mrs Geaney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dungourney, Co. Cork
