School: Cillín

Location:
Killeen, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Hubáin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 566

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 566

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cillín
  2. XML Page 566
  3. XML “Religious Stories”
  4. XML “Religious Stories”

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

  1. (continued from previous page)
    goose and she gave him shelter under her wing and she brought him out on the water. That is why a goose is able to swim ever since. The hen and the turkey are not able to swim.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 5. The Blessed Virgin, Jesus and St. Joseph, were going to Egypt they saw three men in a field sowing seed. They asked the Blessed Virgin where was she going. She said she was going to Egypt. The men said, "you want to hurry because we heard that Herod was coming after Jesus to kill him". The Blessed Virgin, Joseph and Jesus went to Egypt riding on an ass. The next day Herod came to the same where the Blessed Virgin was talking to the men in the field. When the men were cutting the seed the next day. Herod asked the men did they see any three people passing the way lately? They said they did when they sowed the seeds
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Franklin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo