School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 255
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: Robertstown, Naas
- XML Page 255
- XML “Riddles”
- 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
- (continued from previous page)9. As round as an apple as deep as a cup, all the Kings horses would not pull it up.
A well
- Once upon a time there lived a man named Michael Kelly. He used to work for a another man. He had to mind the sheep near Coolagh hills One day his master told him to mow the field near Coolagh. There was a rath at the end of the field. The man mowed all the field. That night the man went to mind the sheep. At about twelve o clock, he saw a crowd of little fairies coming over to him. They asked him, why he mowed their house. He said his master told him to do it. From that day on the man had never a bit of good(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Cummins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
