School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)

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   There is a river in Mayo called the river Teel. When St Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland he was forty days and forty nights on Croagh Patrick When he came down he put devil into a box in the river Deel and told him to stay there until the last day Since that the devil cried out on a certain evening before sunset "Padraig has the time come yet?"

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   Topics

   1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Kelly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   50

   Address

   Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin

2. Stories

   

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   Once upon a time there was a woman who had two daughters, one ugly one and one beautiful on Thre was a Prince who wanted to marry the beautiful one. When her mother heard this she hid her in under a basket. When the duke found that the beautiful girl was gone he had to take the ugly one. As they were going on horse-back they met a woman and she singing.
   Clipte toes and ugly toes
   Behind the duke's ariding
   Pretty foot and neat foot
   Under the basket hiding.
   He asked the girl what was the woman saying but

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