
Scéal Greannmhar
- Language
- Irish
- Collector
- Peggi Ní Congaile
- Informant
- Páraic Mac Congaile
The man makes a new backbone for his horse out of a stick when the old one breaks in two. Or a flayed horse is covered with sheepskin and produces excellent wool. [An Irish by-form tells how a horse, which is thought to have died, is skinned, but revives later. It is covered with a sheepskin on which a fine fleece of wool grows afterwards!]
“There was once a man living in Massbrook. He had no means of living except selling poteen.”