School: Clonfide, Mullingar

Location:
Cloonfide, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Bean Uí Scealaigh
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    Long ago in one of the adjoining parishes there lived two old "thatchers"...

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    Next night he went to the fort, and the same thing happened to him as Hickey. But when he was asked if he worked on Sunday he said 'certainly', he always worked. So they rolled, and rolled him, and when he got up, instead of having one hump he had both his own and Hickey's hump on his back.
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    Folktales index
    AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People
    Language
    Irish
    Collector
    John Joseph Gannon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Glebe, Co. Longford