School: Áth Treasna (C.)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0352, Page 305
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- There was once a man who had a young stripling of a son. The son was a great man for song
and dance and when he came to the marriage age, he went, one night to seek a wife and the woman accepted him. The match was made and each side was satisfied and a messenger was sent to fetch a fiddle that the youth had at home.
The messenger was a long time coming with the fiddle. He went out to the street and he seated himself on a big rough stone that was in the street. The little people came and took him off the stone and left in his place a changleing that was dying.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Crosáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs James Cross
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
