School: Eidhneach
- Location:
- Inagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Sr Mac Gearachaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0611, Page 170
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: Eidhneach
- XML Page 170
- XML “Pious 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
- (continued from previous page)that it was that child who was the penitent thief.
When Our Lord was crucified on the cross and when the thorns were driven in through the flesh the robin came picked one of the thorns. A drop of the blood fell on her breast and that is the way she got the red breast .The robin is a very Holy bird and it is not right to harm her.
One day when the Holy Family was going into Egypt they passed by a garden and they were sowing wheat in it.It was ripe and the following and they had to go reaping it. When they were reaping it the soldiers passed and they asked them did they see any stranger passing.They said they passed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maghera, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mary O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Skaghvickincrow, Co. Clare
