School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090D, Page 08_041
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: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg
- XML Page 08_041
- XML “Little Bo-Peep She Lost her Sheep”
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
- I am a shepherdess and I live among the mountains with my sheep. It is my duty to be up at sunrise and I take my sheep with me to the mountainsand. I wait there until the sun sets. My life is very hard on the mountain because when a stranger comes they scatter in the mountains.
On a summer's day a dreadful event occured. I was seated on a big rock gazing at the sheep eating. All of a suddent my eye fell on a fairy who was sitting comfortable under a mushroom. I went up to see her, but she saw me coming and she ran off. I followed her across the mountain(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Dubhthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mhaigh Eo
