School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ros Mhic Treóin (roll number 967)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Sr M.R. Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0897, Page 201
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)
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
(no title)
“About fifty years ago, there was a well near Ballyrue, and all the people from that district, used to get their water in that well.”
About fifty years ago, there was a well near Ballyrue, and all the people from that district, used to get their water in that well. The well was situated in a field, and a ditch separated it from a big meadow.One day a woman named Mrs. Doyle, went to this well for a can of water. She put down her can in the well, and she was about to draw it up, when she heard a curious noise behind her.
She turned round, and she saw a little man, with a red coat and a green pants, standing behind her. She ran home as fast as she could, and threw her can from her.A few days after this happened, a man named Jim Wilson, went to the well for a bucket of water. He got the water, and was about to go home, when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Biddy Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Maudlins, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- William Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Maudlins, Co. Wexford