School: Attymass B.
- Location:
- Attymass, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Flannghaile
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0127, Page 439
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: Attymass B.
- XML Page 439
- XML “Scéal Grinn”
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)and shook it. Immediately three hounds came running out saying "master what shall we do for service. The soldier told them to bring some money to him. The hounds kept plenty of money with him. In Ireland at that time there lived a king of Ireland.
This king had a beautiful daughter. She was so beautiful that no one could see her. The king had her locked up in a room. The soldier told the three hounds to bring him the daughter. The hounds brought the girl to him. The hounds told the soldier that they would have to leave her back again in less than ten minutes. This went on for a long time. But at last the king found out that he was stealing his daughter.
He ordered his soldier to bring this soldier to his own house and hang him there. They did so. He asked if they would grant him one gift and they said yes. He told some one to go to his room and they would get a small box left in his room and to bring it.
He got it and he shook it and the hounds killed before them. The king told him to stop the hounds and he would give him the daughter and all he possessed. The soldier put the hounds into their places. He married the girl and lived happily in the kings palace afterwards.
- Collector
- Michael Gallagher
- Informant
- Edward Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Treanoughter, Co. Mayo
