School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 633
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: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- XML Page 633
- XML “The Devil and the Gold”
- XML “Bianconi”
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)[-]
- Charles Bianconi an Italian came to Ireland when he was a young boy and landed in Dublin. All he possessed was six small statues for sale and four pence in his pocket. He sold the statues at a small profit and bought more and carried on in this way for some months. He lived on a bun and a glass of beer in the day and this was his only food. He paid three pence per night for his bed in a model lodge. He then started through the country. When he had a few pounds saved he wandered in to Galway and hawked statues in a basket. He was walking one day to the fair of Ballinasloe when a shaft car with driver and three passengers drew up with him. He asked the driver what would he charge him to bring him to the town and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean Mc Hale
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmoremoy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Farmer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
