1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Drong

School: Drong (roll number 15699)

Location:
Drung, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán P. Mac Gabhann
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 136

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 136

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: Drong
  2. XML Page 136
  3. XML “The Widow's Daughter”

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

  1. The Widow's Daughter (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    her and the old woman told her that the tar was her pay. The girl went home and her mother was very angry at seeing her destroyed with tar. She could not get the tar off so she had to stay indoors the rest of her life. The other girl had nothing to do but enjoy out-door life so she lived happily ever after.
    Noel Donaghy
    Ballyargus
    Redcastle
    Co. Donegal
    Ireland
    6th Dec. 1937
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0480: The Spinning‑Women by the Spring. The Kind and the Unkind Girls.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Neil Donaghy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyargus, Co. Donegal