1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Gaddyduff (B.)

School: Gaddyduff (B.) (roll number 16642)

Location:
Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
P. H. Kavanagh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 255

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 255

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: Gaddyduff (B.)
  2. XML Page 255
  3. XML “Jim Con and Jim Flim”

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. Jim Con and Jim Flim (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    asleep. Soon after they lay down there came a crowd of crows round and they landed on the top of the tree in which Jim Con and Jim Flim were sleeping. After a little while one of the crows said to the other what is the news to night. The others said "that the King's daughter is sick and is going to die and no doctor can cure her". One of the crows said there is a well at the bottom of this tree and if she would get
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0564: The Magic Providing Purse and “Out, Boy, out of the Sack!”
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Daniel Ant Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Dan Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    35
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Donegal