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School: Teampall Mhuire

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Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0143, Page 152

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    steed were nearly killed.
    The girl's father banished him then and rebuked his daughter for committing a rash act and especially for refusing so many fine men when the sought her hand in marriage.
    She followed him but he persuaded her to go back to her father's home again but she insisted on accompanying him where ever he should roam. Both of them wandered about through the wood killing wild fowl, and eating them, as he and (eating) his mother had so often done before.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0310: The Maiden in the Tower
    AT0432: The Prince as Bird
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Bourke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Palmerstown, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Anthony Tuoghill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castlereagh, Co. Mayo