Scoil: An Muileann (uimhir rolla 9208)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Magic Lamp of the Tuatha Dé Dananns (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   red flame higher than Mullaghnashee, and it lighted up the whole heavens and the whole country, far and wide.

   When the lamp was not used in this way the well was filled with a decoction of herbs which was used for curing wounds received in battle, and no matter how severe such wounds might be as long as there was a spark of life in the wounded person he was cured in this way.

   The reason the Croagh Patrick giants came so often to fight was to get possession of this stone or lamp because it was believed that all the power of the Mullaghnashee giants was got from it.

   After hundreds of years all the giants on both sides were dead, and for a great many hundreds of years afterwards the stone or lamp remained on top of the pillar of other stones.

   Then because the pillar was so very, very old some of the stones became loose and fell out, and seeing his very poor old man who lived close by, and who owned only one old cow took away all the stones from under the lamp and used them to repair a side of his mud wall cabin that had fallen down.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Michael Beirne

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairmeacha beatha

   Ex-sergeant at Dublin Castle

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Grallagh, Co. Ros Comáin