School: Maol Raithnighe

Location:
Mallaranny, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
An tSiúr Philomena
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 199

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 199

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: Maol Raithnighe
  2. XML Page 199
  3. XML “An Cleasaí Rua”

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. (continued from previous page)
    When he went home he did not see either cattle or sheep in his father's farm or gold or lady in the house.
    So he asked his father did he see anything to-day and he said he did see his farms filled with cattle and sheep, and his house full of gold and the finest lady in the world sitting at the fireside but they all disappeared in an hour.
    The next day the boy went down to the shore again, and he again met the Cleasuide Ruad who asked him to have another game of cards. He said he would, and the same thing happened again as the first day.
    The third day the boy went down again for sticks and he met the Cleasuide Ruad on the shore before him so he asked him would he have a game of cards and the boy said he would. The boy put out the first twenty-five.
    The Cleasuide Ruad said to him anything he'd wish for he'd get it. So he wished for himself to have the finest lady
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Folktales index
    AT0531: Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Ghreachain
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cois Leice, Co. Mayo