School: Bláithín Íosa, Lappin (?)
- Location:
- Lappanbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: -
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1023, Page 250
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Bláithín Íosa, Lappin (?)
- XML Page 250
- XML “Fairy Stories”
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
- Once upon a time there was a woman who had a nice baby of whom she took good care. One day she went away and when she came back there was a sickly crying baby in the cradle and her own was gone. It was always crying and she was always asking people what she should do.One day the priest told her to put the baby in a shawl and stand in a river and let the child drop into the river.She did so and the baby turned into an old man and started cursing her and she ran home and found her own child in the cradle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Michael Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumsillagh, Co. Cavan
