School: Leitir Mhór (roll number 15944)
- Location:
- Lettermore, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eilís Ní Bhaoghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)pleased with him for taking this silly thing for the good cow. She said she would banish him from the place but she let him stay for the night. Next morning she followed him with the tongs. He went to the kings house and the king had a daughter who could not speak. As the man was passing by the girl was looking out of the window, and the man put the board, the bee and the music, on the street and the bee began the music and dancing. The girl seeing this began to speak and to laugh. The king was very pleased and gave five hundred pounds to the man. Then the man went back to his stepmother and they built a fine house and lived happily from that day on, until(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Ann Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lettermore, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary Mc Cahill
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
