School: Kinnegad (B.) (roll number 14362)
- Location:
- Cionn Átha Gad, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0728, Page 241
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- (continued from previous page)air,' changed the dead snake into a redpole.
The king whistled, and the redpole came to him. He told the redpole about the miser, and the redpole said, "I will not be long about putting flight to him. The redpole set out for the 'sandy desert.' for to get a serpent to hunt the miser out of the king's room. After nine days, he came back with one of the smallest snakes he could find. So the miser never came back to the kings room again. One night the snake got into the king's bed, and gave him a wound in the side.The redpole went to the 'Tree of Youth.' which he put the tar on, ithat the miser had burned. On the tree, were three lovely apples. He brought one to the king, and he was cured, but after this wound he could only walk a quarter of a mile in three hours. The 'God of the air' got a terrible cut on the head with a windmill, and she was dying. She could not be cured but the redpole got a robin from 'Tir na nÓg.' This robin licked the wound and healed it.
After about three months the 'God of the air', was quite well again. When the king heard this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cionn Átha Gad, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Thomas Waters
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cionn Átha Gad, Co. na hIarmhí
