1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Walshestown

School: Walshestown (roll number 3787)

Location:
Walshestown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Thomas Nolan
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 055

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 055

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: Walshestown
  2. XML Page 055
  3. XML “A Fairy <span class="exact">Story</span>”

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. A Fairy Story (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    A fairy story.
    first. Then she opened the door, and she looked in no bath was in sight, next they went to the bedroom. The she led her the way to another room. Then she saw it was filled with books, "such a terrible room cried the girl" yes said Pick me up, I never thought of it like that. I do not want to see any more of this dreadful house. Could not we go to the garden, but alas, when the got to the garden, it was full of dolls prams, that they had not place to sit down "Oh please take me home to my own bed cried the girl." Do not cry dear", said Pick me up the fairy kindly, you need not live in a house like that if you begin in time to learn to be tidy. I will my very hardest replied the girl, and you will be very glad to hear that she is the tidiest girl in the whole world.
    14th March 1938
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patty King
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Reynoldstown, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Mary King
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    83
    Address
    Reynoldstown, Co. Louth