School: Eidhneach
- Location:
- Inagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Sr Mac Gearachaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0611, Page 215
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 215
- XML “An Old Story”
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)get the raven and the snow around him was all blood and when Jack saw that he said he would not marry any girl only one who would have hair as black as the raven's feathers and cheeks as red as the raven's blood and skin as white as the snow. Then he went home and he was asking every one did they know any person of that description.
After a long time he heard that there was one at the other end of the world and that she was a king's daughter but a person should be able to answer the king's questions and do a great many tricks before he would get her. Jack said he would go in search of her but his father was not willing to let him and(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynagonnaghtagh, Co. Clare
