School: Crury (roll number 3134)
- Location:
- Creevy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Martin Keegan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 363
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: Crury
- XML Page 363
- XML “A Story”
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)basket keeping the sun from her eyes. When they landed at the rock, the girl separated from her brother's again, and on her way she met a woman, this woman told her how she would get back her eleven brothers. She was to gather nettles from her garden or from a grave-yard, and to make eleven shirts with the nettles and she was not to speak while she would be making the eleven shirts. One day a King was out hunting and he saw the girl pulling nettles in the garden, he liked the girl very much and he brought her home with him. The King would have wished to marry the girl, but his mother would not let him marry her, she said that the girl was insane when she would speak. The king wanted the Bishop to marry them, but he would not, he also said the girl was insane. The Bishop's house was beside the grave-yard, and he watched the girl going to grave-yard by night to pull nettles. The Bishop told this to the King, and when the King heard it, he said he would put the girl to death.(continues on next page)
