School: Cill an Daingin

Location:
Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Tomás Mac Domhnaill
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 518

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 518

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)

  1. XML School: Cill an Daingin
  2. XML Page 518
  3. XML “A Funny 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

  1. Once upon a time there was young princess living in Knigh Turret. She had a lovely golden ball. One day she was playing with the ball, beside a well. Her ball fell into a well. She sat down and cried.
    A frog came up out of the water. He said to her, "what are you crying for". She said she lost her ball in the well. The frog said that if she gave him all he asked her for he would get the ball for her. The princess said she would. Then
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Maureen Collins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockanacartan, Co. Tipperary