School: Bunlahy, Granard
- Location:
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs Brady
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 293
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: Bunlahy, Granard
- XML Page 293
- XML “The Two Cruitíns”
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)He put in the whole night with them, and if he was satisfied with the fairies they were full as well satisfied with him for when they would be resting after a dance he'd strike up a cearune (from ceathrún - quarter) of a song or maybe it's what he'd begin to lilt, and a great lilter he was. Well and good they didn't find the time passing till it was time for the dance to scatter.
Then up speaks one of them and says he, what will we do for this man that gave us such a good night? 'Take the humps off him, says another, and in the winking of your eye the humps fell down on the ground and he went out from the ring of the fort as straight as a whip.
The news went far and near, and didn't another man that had a cruit on him come to hear of it. He lost no time but went to the first man and asked him how he got rid of the cruit. That man told him how he was passing by(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pádraic Mac Giolla Comhghaill
- Gender
- Male
