School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0104, Page 078
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: Baile na nGarraidhthe
- XML Page 078
- XML “An Old Story”
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 who had an only son born to him. The child was born under a lucky star and those who told his fortune said that in his fourteenth year he would get married to the King's daughter. It happened that the King of the land after the child's birth passed through the village in disguise and asked if there was any news. "Yes" said the people, a child has just been born, and when it is fourteen years old it is fated to marry the King's daughter.
This did not please the king, so he went to the child's parents and asked them if they would sell the child and they said "no". The stranger begged very hard of them and offered a great(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brownstown or Donnageaga, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Bridget Duffy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Brownstown or Donnageaga, Co. Mayo
