School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)

Location:
Ballina, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 575

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 575

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: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
  2. XML Page 575
  3. XML “The Enchanted Garden”

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)
    they had other apples with them. They brought him in and gave him drink and they tried to steal his apple. But when they got him asleep they stole it and went home to give it to their father. When they gave it to him he did not know what to do with it. In the meantime Benjam came in and the king said to him "You are no good, you never got an apple". Just then a little man walked in. "He did get an apple" he said "John and James stole it on him at the hotel. It was Benjan that got that apple". So the king took a bit of the apple and swallowed it. As soon as he did he was not a bit sick. He said to Benjam "You have my castle for ever my cattle and my sheep and all I have". So Benjam got the castle and put the other two brothers away and kept the apple, and any time that any one would get sick he would give them a bit of the apple and would make them better an he and his father lived happy ever after.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Folktales index
    AT0551: The Sons on a Quest for a Wonderful Remedy for their Father
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Desmond Hopkins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knocklehaugh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr Hopkins
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knocklehaugh, Co. Mayo