School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 418
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: Corr Odhar
- XML Page 418
- XML “A Story about a Dragon”
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)out to the field to work him. But the pony began to kick and run away. He determined to sell the pony and buy a quiet pony.
Next day he went to the fair and sold the pony and bought a quiet pony. As soon as he sold the pony, the new house disappeared and his wife was brought away by a dragon in the form of a man. His name was "Crochar na thairne." When he came home from the fair he saw his mother sitting in an old hut again. She told him that his wife was brought away by the "Crochar na thairne."
She made three oat meal cakes for Cahal. He went away to seek for his wife and he brought the three oat-meal cakes with him.
He was not long walking until he met a little man breaking atones on the side of the road. The man told him that he saw his wife going that way with "Crochar na thairne." He took out his first cake to eat it. The man asked some of the cake Cahal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Winnie Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
