School: Mulhuddart (roll number 16675)
- Location:
- Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Broin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 67
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: Mulhuddart
- XML Page 67
- XML “Legends - The Old Woman and St Patrick”
- XML “Legends - St Patrick's Curse on Cloghran”
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
- It is said that there was a woman in a field in Powerstown and she had a basket with her. She had six pounds of butter in the basket. She met St. Patrick and he asked her what she had in the basket and she said six yards of muslin, then she said six pounds of butter. He said if it be butter "let it be butter and if it be muslin let it be muslin." Then he went away and the woman looked into the basket and there were six yards of muslin in the basket. There is a stone in that field on it there is "In remembrance of the six yards of muslin."I got this legend from my Grandmother Mrs. Byrne.
- It is said that St. Patrick put a curse on Cloghran. Many of the people of that place are poor and it is said it is the fruit of the curse.
- Collector
- Anthony Critchley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Damastown, Co. Dublin
