1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Gleann Tochair

School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)

Location:
Glentogher, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 329

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 329

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: Gleann Tochair
  2. XML Page 329
  3. XML “Another Fairy Tale”
  4. XML “Fairy 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

  2. Fairy Story

    Share Share Post
    One winter's night a number of men in Magheramore Carndonagh Co Donegal heard lovely music being played in a field below the house.
    One man went down to see what it was and saw a small box lying in the field. The music seemed to be coming out of the box.
    He took it up to
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glentogher, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    John Kearney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Magheramore, Co. Donegal