School: Kilduff
- Location:
- Kilduff Upper, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0962, Page 078
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)
- XML School: Kilduff
- XML Page 078
- XML “Blessings”
- XML (no title)
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
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. (no title)
“Once upon a time Fionn Mac Cumhal was going to fight a giant.”
Once upon a time Fionn Mc Cumhal was going to fight a giant. The bargain was that Fionn would go half way to meet the giant and the giant would go half way to meet Fionn.
When the day came for the fight Fionn was afraid to go and he told his wife that he would go into the cradle and pretend he was a child. When the giant saw that Fionn did not come to meet him he came to the house. He asked where was Fionn and the wife told him he was away. "The wind is on the door" she said "and if Fionn was here he would take the house in his arms and turn round the other(continues on next page)