School: Cnoc Luachra (roll number 12653)
- Location:
- Knockloughra, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Móghráin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 11
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: Cnoc Luachra
- XML Page 11
- XML “How the Carolans Got the Money”
- XML “How the Carolans Got the Money”
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)head she let a big roar. Then he married her and she knitted a waistcoat for him. The next day he wore it to the fair and he met a man. The man said to him "I thought no one could knit like that but a daughter of mine and she died. Then the Carolan man told him the story.
- Long ago there lived a man in Co Mayo named Michael Carolan. One night as he was going along by the seashore he met three men carrying a coffin. He said to them that he never saw three men carrying a coffin before, that he always saw four. He said he would help them with it. when he went under the coffin the three men went away and left it to himself. He took the lid off it and found a young girl in it. She was alive, He took her home to his mother. She was very pleased with her.
That night twelvemonths he went to(continues on next page) - Collector
- Máirghréad Seoighe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Séamus Seoighe
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Rockfleet, Co. Mayo
