School: An Corrbhaile
- Location:
- An Corrbhaile, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Máirtín Mac Coitir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 377
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: An Corrbhaile
- XML Page 377
- XML “A 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
A Story
“There was once a farmer named Martin Clancy who was very poor and discontented.”
There was once a farmer named Martin Clancy who was very poor and discontented. He had often heard and read of treasures being discovered in all sorts of odd places : and he thought so much about this that at last nothing would do but that he himself must find a treasure. So instead of attending to his daily work and looking after the crops in his fields and the trees in his fields and the trees in his orchard he went poking about from morning until night among all the old ruins in the neighbourhood hoping that by good fortune he might turn up a chest of gold coinsThis went on for a long time : and of course no gold was discovered. One day however Farmer Clancy came down to breakfast he said to his wife "It is all right my dear I have(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Keniry
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Denis Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82