School: Beanntraighe (B.) (roll number 15135)
- Location:
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dr. Mac Carrthaigh
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- Once upon a time a king and his men were playing a game, and the person that would win would get anything that they would ask.
The game was going, on and, the king won every game up to the last. Then he was in for the last game with the unknown person. The game went on and at length the king was beaten, and when they looked at the person they saw that it was a woman. Then they got a terrible fright because there were no women supposed to be in the game. They asked her what did she want.
She said to the king's son, 'to go to a lake in another king's kingdom and get a bottle of water out of it, and that he couldn't sleep twice in one house(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Sugrue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Donal Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrignagat, Co. Cork