School: Koilmore (roll number 14115)
- Location:
- Cuilmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Murchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0099, Page 068
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: Koilmore
- XML Page 068
- XML “The Man with the White Horse”
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
- There was once a man coming home from town, riding a white horse ans as he was passing the grave yard he heard the faries shouting "Stop him".
When he came they told him he could pass but not to look behind him, and he looked behind him, but he got away from them.
Next day a woman came to his house. She asked the man's wife whare was the man of the house, and his wife said he was out in the field working. The woman said "You told me a lie", and she said he is in bed sick, she said that the horse would die, but the man would get better, and it was as she said.
- Informant
- Edward Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cloontooa, Co. Mayo
