School: Loughill
- Location:
- Ballymunterhiggin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eibhlis Ní Mhathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1026, Page 127
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- (continued from previous page)cut a lock of hair from above his left war and put it in a small box. Then he rode away and put his horse in the stable. The king invited all the country side to go to a feast in his castle that night. The man who told the king he would kill the dragon went. The king thought he had killed the dragon. But the king’s daughter took the box from her pocket and looked to see if there was any hair missing behind his ear, and there was not. She want around and found the boy with the missing hair and then she said “This is the man who killed the dragon.” The king gave his daughter in marriage to the widow’s son who had killed the dragon. ‘If they did not live happily ever after that day, that you and me may.’
- Informant
- James Elliott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
